In preparation for our ErlangFactorySF 2014talk on using Erlang and Elixir for building robots, we ran into a bit of asnag. Our talk needed an Android device to control an Erlang process remotelyfor best effect. We planned on using JInterfacefor...
Keep on reading ›Just a PSA sending messages to processes in Elixir has changed in the latest versions.In Elixir 0.12.1 sending messages used <-
defmodule CustomModule do def spawn_process() do spawn(fn() -> display_message() end) end defp display_message()...
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There is an overflow in floating point number parsing in Ruby 2.0.This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2013-4164.You can read about the details here.
Attackers can construct special strings and attack you with something like:...
Keep on reading ›Back in the swing of things, here's one just a week after my last one - like they ought to be :)
- Best things and stuff of 2013 by fogus. The Carver Mead interview is outstanding.
- hoplon - Program the web with clojure and clojurescript.
- Zen room for...
I've been doing a subscription screencast called ElixirSips to help you learnElixir for over four months now, but I haven't yetprovided any of that content on our blog. It seems inappropriate, so withoutfurther ado, here is an ElixirSips episode...
Keep on reading ›It's been two months since a linkdump, once again. I'm not so good at this stuff. There's good stuff ahead though!
- Big Ball of Mud was the best thing I read in the past few months re: software, and absolutely is required reading.
- WebSim is a...
Robby and I gave a talk earlier this year at Cascadia Ruby on Ruby and Robotics. It was a lot of fun. They just posted the video, so I thought I'd embed it here :)
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