# Testing and code review
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Testing Testing testing testing, it’s one of those things that as a graduate you don’t put a tonne of thought into. You’ve had lectures and senior developers tell you it’s important but do you listen?
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# Teamwork
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I’ve only ever worked with small teams in my short career, but I’ve worked in teams for most of my life, having played basketball since I was 8 or so. All these team sports have really strengthened…
# Creating migrations in Ecto
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Ecto has a neat way to create database tables, there called migrations. Migrations simply give the database adapter a schema to follow.
# Company culture
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Last night was the 1 year anniversary of Our Very Own (OVO), the company I work for. We had a company presentation, then we went to a mini golf bar.
# Rapid development using Elixir, GraphQL and React
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I have been extremely lucky, my first job has been using the bleeding edge in technologies. When I was out looking for a job I just wanted anything and technically I worked part-time at other places…
# Daily exercise
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As programmers we often neglect our health. We typically consume a lot of caffeine, we don’t exercise much and like most professions we don’t sleep enough.
# Contributing to Ecto
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I’ll preface this by saying no I didn’t actually have a PR merged, yet I still had a great experience nonetheless. I was working on a many_to_many relationship for work, one where if you had an empty…
# Elixir connecting to databases part: 1
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Elixir does a great job when coupled with phoenix to give you a seamless setup when connecting to Postgres, but how does it actually work? What if I want to connect to a different type of database,…
# Setting up an Elixir project with and without Phoenix
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For this I’m going to assume you have Elixir and Erlang installed as well as the Phoenix framework if that’s what you want to use. You will also have to install node.js and Postgres the default…
# Testing in Elixir
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Learning a new language while on a project at work has meant a somewhat rushed learning curve. I’ve had to learn functional programming, Elixir, GraphQL, graph databases namely Dgraph and dabble in…