I recently built and released a new project in my new favorite programming language: Elixir. The project is an HTTP request circuit breaker, simply named Breaker because I own an extremely creative automatic name generator.
I primarily focus on code as a communication tool between programmers, even when I’m just writing code that will only be read by my future self. It’s a set of machine instructions secondary to that.
Recently, I spoke at the University of Arizona’s IT Summit about Elixir and Phoenix and what makes them special.
It’s a fairly common pattern, in my experience, to prepare some routes for your express application in a separate file (module) and export them. Then they can be imported in a file that’s only responsible for putting your server together,...
So I like building my custom modules in the test first fashion. In Drupal, to test de-coupled site functionality from custom modules, it’s conventional (and pretty easy) to use the built-in Simpletest. It provides some pretty neat Drupal-specific functions to...