by Carolyn Tragasz | May 21, 2021 | Productivity, Tutorials
What is Kanban? A Kanban is a visual tool used by teams to organize the workflow of projects. The basic premise is to create a board for a project and sort the associated tasks into three columns: To do, work in progress (WIP), and done. Initially used by Toyota in...
by Connor Rigby | Apr 27, 2021 | Tutorials
At Binary Noggin, we frequently use Phoenix Channels to build applications. Although Phoenix Channels are cool, they aren't always needed when integrating with clients. Sometimes a raw websocket connection is all you need to get real-time communication up and running....
by Amos King | Feb 9, 2021 | Tutorials
"Tell me! Did you know a hacker could get a user's files by guessing file names?!" The bright interrogation lights are shining in your face. You can't quite make out the person barraging you with questions. It’s a scenario no one wants to experience: Your files were...
by Connor Rigby | Dec 18, 2020 | Tutorials
Elixir has grown significantly since its inception in 2012 and has proven to be an effective programming language in a variety of industries. From gaming to food and beverage companies to learning management systems, Elixir’s clean syntax means this language will...
by Connor Rigby | Oct 20, 2020 | Tutorials
My absolute favorite part of Elixir/Erlang is Binary Pattern Matching. While working on the new BLE Library for Elixir, I've had to implement a ton of protocols that are part of the Bluetooth specification. I want to take a moment to appreciate how easy it is to...
by Connor Rigby | Sep 9, 2020 | Tutorials
A recent interest of mine has been multimedia & streaming. I've always believed Elixir/Erlang would be an amazing fit for this niche if it were to be used there. It took a few years, but finally Software Manson released their new open source framework called...
