A collection of links that cover what happened during ElixirConf 2016

https://github.com/poteto/elixirconf-2016

by brightball • 10 years ago

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brightball3• 10 years ago

Not my repo, but the author says to feel free to submit PR's for any new additions as they come up / get published.

The conference was excellent. Thanks to all involved. Haven't experienced that much energy around any segment of the programming community in a very long time.

JohnKacz2• 10 years ago

Brilliant! I was just following Jim Freeze on twitter to see if/when the videos of the talks are uploaded.

I also found this little review from a first-timer nice.[0]

[0] http://supernullset.com/posts/2016-09-03-elixirconf-wrap.htm...

fahrradflucht• 10 years ago

If I wait for recordings on Confreaks I just create an IFTTT recipe to email me or give me an android notification if the RSS feed gets filled up.

JohnKacz2• 10 years ago

Cool idea. I didn't know if Confreaks would have these. ElixirConf 2015's talks were uploaded by ErlangSolutions' channel and when I messaged them the said they wouldn't be hosting this years talks but Jim would probably let people know when they were up somewhere.

zqfm• 10 years ago

The wording made me think that there had been some kind of tragedy. Glad to see that it went well!

andrewstuart2• 10 years ago

My thoughts exactly (or that some sort of debacle went down). Language is a funny thing.

brightball3• 10 years ago

Fwiw, the title was edited by somebody else. It was initially titled "ElixirConf community github repo of slides and links"

davidw3• 10 years ago

They let it crash, I guess!

aikah• 10 years ago

Exactly.

davidw3• 10 years ago

A nice report with some highlights would be much appreciated. Slides, taken out of context, may not mean much.

Even videos are s-l-o-w compared to reading.

brightball3• 10 years ago

I'm actually working on one that I hope to have ready by sometime next week.

Short version:

1. Elixir, Phoenix, Umbrella and Nerves were the main "themes" of the conference 2. Lots of emphasis on Nerves 3. Closing keynote of "Elixir for the next 10 years" is one of the best talks on any subject I've heard in several years and a must watch.

4. For me, the Dialyzer talk was one of the most interesting because it explained how the lack of operator overloading lets Dialyzer map and infer types at compile time, so a variable next to a + is always a number for example and with that you can map wrongful usages. For anywhere that the type is ambiguous (function with a _ variable) you can use a typespec comment to tell Dialyzer exactly what it is. Gives you implicitly strong typing and type checking without that rigidity that comes from fully static typing.

davidw3• 10 years ago

Dialyzer feels like a bit of a hack, but it's a very nice thing to have. I've used it for a while with Erlang.

jeanlucas• 10 years ago

Like always, very good content :-)

thyrsus• 10 years ago

I'm delighted with the slides for "String Theory". For some reason, my web searches have never found how the UTF-8 coding works, but their explanation is crystal clear. I'm going to have to buy the mug.

A collection of links that cover what happened during ElixirConf 2016

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