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Let Your Database Update You with EctoWatch

Elixir allows application developers to create very parallel and very complex systems. Tools like Phoenix PubSub and LiveView thrive on this property of the ...

How Far Can I Push a GenServer?

I’ve been using Elixir for a while and I’ve implemented a number of GenServers. But while I think I mostly understand the purpose of them, I’ve not gotten t...

Why I Love Lodash

I love Lodash, but I’m not here to tell you to use Lodash. It’s up to you to decide if a tool is useful for you or your project. It will come down to the n...

Structuring an Elixir+Phoenix App

I’ve mix phx.new ed many applications and when doing so I often start with wondering how to organize my code. I love how Phoenix pushes you to think about th...

Analyzing Ruby Code with Neo4j

For a long time I’ve been wanting to use Neo4j as a tool to analyze Ruby code. Using Ruby for almost a decade, I have a lot of experience with effectively f...

Analyzing Ruby’s ObjectSpace with Neo4j

Recently the continuous builds for the neo4j Ruby gem failed for JRuby because the memory limit had been reached. I wanted to see if I could use my favorite...

Master Data Management Scoring Examples

A while ago my colleague Michael suggested to me that I draw out some examples of how my record linkage algorithm did it’s thing. In order to do that, I’ve ...

Loading SQL to Neo4j Like Magic

When using neo4j for the first time, most people want to import data from another database to start playing around. There are a lot of options including LOA...

Analyzing Twitter with Neo4j and Rails

Having recently become interested in making it easy to pull data from Twitter with neo4apis-twitter I also decided that I wanted to be able to visualize an...

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I’ve been reading a few interesting analyses of Twitter data recently such as this #gamergate analysis by Andy Baio. I thought it would be nice to have a ...

Normalizing Religion in Ireland

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or t...