Posts by Year
2022
Day 10: Errors and Processes
Coming soon
Day 9: More On Multiprocessing
Coming soon
Day 7: A Short Visit to Common Data Structures
Records Records are, first of all, a hack. They are more or less an afterthought to the language and can have their share of inconveniences.They’re still pre...
Day 6: Functionally Solving Problems
On this chapter there was nothing interesting from the book, just an implementation of a prefix notation or Polish notation. In Erlang to solve a problem is ...
Day 5: Errors and Exceptions
Errors come in many flavours such as compile-time errors, logical errors, run-time errors and generated errors. Compile-time errors are often syntactic mista...
Day 4: Higher Order Functions
In functional programming concept of higher order functions is where we use functions as parameters to other functions. Resulting in the function parameter b...
Day 3: Types (Or Lack Thereof) and Recurssion
Type Safety is the new cool, type systems give programmers more safety and speed due to less errors. Erlang is a dynamically typed language where error is ca...
Day 2: Syntax in Functions
An = sign in Erlang/Elixir is not about assignment but rather is a match operator, the same way it is in Algebra. Pattern matching allows for using different...
Day 1: Starting Out and Modules
With Erlang you can try out the language using the Erlang shell by typing erl, one great thing about the Erlang shell is that it has a built-in line editor ...
60 Days of code: Erlang Edition
I consider myself an advanced beginner in Elixir, being a Rubyist, Elixir was destined to be my next language, like it has been for many other Ruby developer...
Why Typescript
Writing Javascript at scale is not easy, however, Javascript has experienced a lot of improvements over the past decade making it modern, less buggy, predict...
2020
Factory Method
Factory Method is a creational design pattern that provides an interface for creating objects in a superclass, but allows subclasses to alter the type of obj...
Compile vs Runtime Evaluation in Elixir
Elixir despite being a compiled language, it somehow behaves like an interpreted language. For instance Usually you would not put an Application.get_env or S...
Different ways to call a method in Ruby
Ruby has many ways of doing the same thing, for instance when you have an array to get its size you could either use one of the following methods: Array.size...
Vim: Notes and Cheats
So according to my good friend Wikipedia Vim is a clone, with additions, of Bill Joy’s vi text editor program for Unix. Vim’s author, Bram Moolenaar, based i...
Tmux: Notes and Cheats
Tmux as defined in Wikipedia is a terminal multiplexer for Unix-like operating systems. It allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed simultaneously in...
Algorithms: Hash Tables
This theme supports link posts, made famous by John Gruber. To use, just add link: http://url-you-want-linked to the post’s YAML front matter and you’re done.
Introduction: What is Data Structures and Algorithims
According to Wikipedia a data structure is a way that data is organized, managed and stored to enable efficient access and modification of the data. A data s...
2019
Welcome to Dear Fola!
Here you will find posts about different things I learned and continue to learn on a daily basis. Most of the things will cover software development, but on ...