# Basic Unit Testing In Elixir
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One thing that every programmer must do is test their code. Many languages have ways of testing them, some hard to use some easy to use.
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# My first talk
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On the 21st of November I performed my first talk at a local Elixir meetup. In front of 15 entire people I gave a 14 minute talk on turning a REST endpoint into a GraphQL one.
# Migrating to Jason from Poison
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I currently work on an Elixir/Phoenix API that talks directly to a React frontend. In needing to encode some ecto structs into JSON and pass them to be stored in a JSONB column in Postgres.
# 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?
# 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.
# 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…
# 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,…