002: ElixirRuhr - Nerves of Steel

Getting up to speed!

• You are interested in learning Elixir, but you don't really know where to start?

• You have hacked a few lines of Elixir but you don't get the whole picture?

• You are running Elixir in production and want to share your experiences with other?

• You are part of the Erlang galaxy and just want to hang around with some Alchemists to close the gap between the two universes?

If your answer to one or more of these questions is YES, you should definitively join us!

Talks

Christoph Gnip: IoT with Nerves + Elixir

The Internet of Things in at the threshold, but why doesn't it step in? Can Elixir help to embrace it? And what about an Embedded Revolution? Concerning with those questions, the talk also tries to take away the pain and fear of 21th centuries embedded development - All it takes is a little Nerves (https://hexdocs.pm/nerves/getting-started.html).

Deep in his heard Christoph (@codethonian (https://twitter.com/codethonian)) is a scientist and foolhardy software developer. He is specialized in hardware and AI. Presenting new technologies and sharing his insights are his passions. He loves giving talks and tries to tame the IoT.

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Matthias Lindhorst & Farhad Taebi: Getting started with Phoenix

This beginner friendly talk will start with a short introduction about the Erlang (https://www.erlang.org/) and Elixir (http://elixir-lang.org/) toolchain (mix (http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/introduction-to-mix.html), hex and (https://hex.pm/)ecto (https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto)). Afterwards Matthias & Farhad will code a small Phoenix (http://www.phoenixframework.org/) app and explain how to extract buisiness related code into a GenServer (http://elixir-lang.org/docs/stable/elixir/GenServer.html).

Schedule

18:30 - 18:50: Arrival

19:00 - 19:30: Christoph Gnip: IoT with Nerves + Elixir

19:40 - 20:10: Matthias Lindhorst & Farhad Taebi: Getting started with Phoenix

20:10 - 21:00: Hang around and talk

Venue

Das Labor - Bochums Hackerspace

Drinks and food will be provided by our sponsors

About the organizers

We are a group of enthusiastic software developers with a strong Ruby background located in Bochum, Germany.

Sponsors

• 9elements

• Neopoly (http://neopoly.com)