Elixir: An Introduction to Your Next Addiction

Summary

This talk is an introduction to the Elixir language and some basic Functional Programming as well as some intro to the Erlang ecosystem. We will look at the Elixir language syntax, how to use Elixir and the technology of the Erlang community to make concurrent and distributed systems, and will also look at the emerging web ecosystem(Ecto and Dynamo) growing up around Elixir.

Daniel Farrell

Daniel is a Rubyist who came to our clan through the dreaded PHP route. He taught himself PHP and Javascript to make basic web pages, and then turned himself into an actual developer. He recently started at the new hotness of startups in Richmond called Jobaio after cutting his teeth doing Ruby at Weinstein Properties for a few years.