Evothings + Phoenix = Neato

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I have just started working at Evothings !

It’s a fun gang making slick development tools and libraries for building mobile IoT apps. Evothings is pushing the envelope on really easy mobile development focused on all the new nifty IoT-devices flooding us over the next few years.

In my last article I predicted Elixir to become big and now that I am learning the Evothings tools I wanted to make an Evothings example that uses Phoenix , the Elixir web server framework, as a backend, using its channels mechanism for websocket communication.

Coinciding with the release today of Evothings Studio 2.0 beta 2 (yay!) I will show step-by-step how to:

Install Evothings Studio locally. It’s just unpacking a zip :)
Make sure we can run the “BLE Scan” example app and modify it.
Get a Phoenix server up on a Debian/Ubuntu server on the internet.
Modify the app and server to use Phoenix channels for publish/subscribe of scan data.
Verify it all works!

Since not everyone has a Linux server up on the internet you can skip step 3 and just use my public server :)

Let’s go!

Elixir Booming

Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

It seems like the “damp cloth of Java” that has been plastered all over the programming landscape the last 20 years is finally being lifted. I admit, I do dislike Java …immensely. And not only on technical grounds, but even more based on what I perceive as it’s community worshipping complexity for it’s own sake. Of course IMHO.

These days new and truly interesting languages are all over the place. Rust and Go are two examples with a lot of momentum, although I personally choose Nim over both.

And Smalltalk is still my “super productive dynamically typed” language of choice, but I just learned about a language that I really think is going places…

Elixir on Roads Less Taken

Evothings + Phoenix = Neato

Elixir Booming