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...

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()...

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:...

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 wrote a library for controlling an ARDrone with Elixir.

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...

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...

So I wrote a library for controlling a sphero with Elixir

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 :)