General

Meet Assenty, the Elixir Phoenix-powered social Question Board service

Standard

I started learning Elixir nearly two years ago and love the concurrency, fault-tolerance and scalability paradigms its Erlang heritage brings to the table. I discovered Phoenix in early spring 2015 when I was looking for Chicago Boss with an easier learning curve 🙂 For the non-developers reading this, Chicago Boss is a web framework for the Erlang programming language. Erlang is not renowned for its learning curve but is acclaimed for its reliability. Just ask WhatsApp.

I digress…

Today, after nearly seven months of hard work in stealth mode, I’m thrilled to launch Assenty, a service I’ve built with Elixir to provide real-time Q&A support for event organisers, using Phoenix channels.
Continue reading

Viva La Blogger

Standard

Welcome to my new blog! I’ll be sharing my journey from social media marketing aficionado to software engineer, via starting a company or two. Many of the initial posts will be programming-language specific and consequently very technology-heavy so please be aware of that.

I started blogging again because I started a new company called Assenty, and had to come out of a long-standing hibernation from social media, brought on from the combined fatigue of years of working as a social media consultant.
Continue reading