Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. How to build the relationships to get into the door and have the interviewer want you to succeed. And how to build the reputation that has the company wanting you regardless of the outcome. This approach also works for speaking at conferences, selling courses, and o...
May 28, 2021•22 min
Szymon Soppa joins the mix to talk about composing queries for your Ecto models in Phoenix. He talks about how Ecto typically thinks about its queries and how you can build your own queries and dives deep with Adi on how you can arrange the queries to get the characteristics in both data and performance that you're looking for from your database. Panel Adi Iyengar Guest Szymon Soppa Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links How to compose and refactor Ecto queries with Queries Modules Contact u...
May 26, 2021•25 min
Kamil Lelonek joins the mix to explain what comprehensions are and how they are used in Elixir. Allen and Kamil dive into the intricacies of this simple, yet powerful, feature that allows you to work with collections of data to get work done in your Elixir applications. They also dive into some of the more common structures of comprehensions and some of the uses cases they're put to. Panel Allen Wyma Guest Kamil Lelonek Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Best practices of comprehensions ...
May 19, 2021•53 min
Sascha Wolf joins the mix to talk about how to test behaviors in your Phoenix apps by using tools like Mox and Knigge. Panel Adi Iyenger Allen Wyma Charles Max Wood Eric Bolikowski Guest Sascha Wolf Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Twitter: Sascha Wolf ( @wolf4earth ) Picks Adi- Testing Elixir by Andrea Leopardi and Jeffrey Matthias Adi- GitHub | gleam-lang/gleam Allen- The Pragmatic Studio Charles- Flying High with Flutter Charles- Premium | Devchat.tv Charles- Ruby Rogues | Devchat.t...
May 12, 2021•23 min
Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become the person people go to for what you do. So, how do you become the first person people think of when they think of that thing you know how to do? Let Chuck tell you. Panel Charles Max Wood ...
May 07, 2021•17 min
Have you wondered how to measure how productive your team is? And, how do you increase team throughput? Mason McLead from Software.com joins the Mix to explain how they measure productivity for individuals and teams at Software.com and gives tip after tip on how teams can organize to allow for more flow state among their developers. Panel Allen Wyma Charles Max Wood Guest Mason McLead Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Picks Allen- The Practitioner's Guide to Graph Data Allen- A6-N3 Standing D...
May 05, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support ....
Apr 29, 2021•15 min
Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey. Panel Charles Max Wood Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support ....
Apr 28, 2021•18 min
Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with. Panel Char...
Apr 23, 2021•20 min
Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with. Panel Char...
Apr 21, 2021•22 min
Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--61...
Apr 16, 2021•21 min
Adi Iyengar walks Eric and Chuck through the process of testing your plugs in your Phoenix Controllers. He leads out by explaining how most people approach testing plugs and some of the inherent problems and inefficiencies with the approach and then explains the way that he approaches testing them and testing Phoenix apps in general. Panel Charles Max Wood Eric Bolikowski Guest Adi Iyengar Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Linkedin: Adi Iyengar Adi Iyengar - The Bug Catcher Picks Adi- E...
Apr 14, 2021•31 min
Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this pod...
Apr 09, 2021•31 min
Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts. Panel Charles Max Wood Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/p...
Apr 07, 2021•34 min
Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.c...
Apr 02, 2021•39 min
Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time. Panel Charles Max Wood Guest Jason Weimann Sponsors Dev Heroes Ac...
Mar 31, 2021•41 min
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter ...
Mar 26, 2021•30 min
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter ...
Mar 26, 2021•30 min
As we ramp back up on recording Elixir Mix, our new panel dives into the resources available for learning and keeping current in Elixir. Resources include books, courses, forums, email newsletters, and more. Panel Allen Wyma Charles Max Wood Eric Bolikowski Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Links Programming Elixir ≥ 1.6: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun by Dave Thomas Elixir in Action by Saša Juric Learning Resources - The Elixir programming language Binary pattern matching i...
Mar 23, 2021•24 min
Remember the amazing adventure it was to learn a new thing every day as a Junior Developer? It's easy to feel a little stuck or lost as a Senior developer since there aren't roadmaps or people looking to mentor seniors. (Besides Charles Max Wood.) Chuck talks about how he felt that way at different points in his career and how podcasting and connecting with the programming communities helped him get past that. Panel Charles Max Wood Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Advertising Inquiries: https://...
Mar 16, 2021•39 min
Julien Maisonneuve—blogger extraordinaire—joins the Elixir Mix panel to discuss the ways he’s bent Elixir to his will and found the edges of how it works and what you can do with its syntax. He talks about currying and about taking Elixir syntax to extremes. He’s also worked on the Megaparsec Elixir parser and explains some of the oddities that come with working with Elixir’s AST(Abstract Syntax Tree.) Panel Allen Wyma Charles Max Wood Eric Bolikowski Guest Julien Maisonneuve Sponsors Dev Heroes...
Mar 09, 2021•48 min
Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around. He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention. Panel Charles Max Wood Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/bran...
Mar 02, 2021•35 min
If you've been wondering what's up with Elixir Mix and how it's going to shape up for the future, stay tuned… Panel Charles Max Wood Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support ....
Feb 16, 2021•28 min
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.Special Guest: John-Daniel Trask. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support ....
Feb 05, 2021•50 min
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.Special Guest: John-Daniel Trask. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support ....
Feb 05, 2021•50 min
This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues 485 The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out discussing how mid-level developers can move up and how developers can grow in more ways that technical skills. Panel Charles Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Sponsors Next Level Mastermind Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links Devchat.tv | Dev Rev Picks Charles- The 360 Leader: Developing your Influence from Anywhere ...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 11 min
José Valim, the creator of Elixir, shares his story with the panel starting with why he built Elixir. The panel wonders why José did not just use Erlang. José discusses what he wanted from Elixir and what problems he wanted to solve. The panel discusses concurrency, Metaprogramming, ad hoc polymorphism, and run times. José talks about what it was like as elixir grew in popularity and maintaining Elixir. José shares his goals for Elixir for 2019 and discusses his role in different projects. The p...
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr 22 min
Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE (Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount) Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals. Mani has read thousands of books on success, setting and achieving goals, and personal growth and has distilled these 6 principles from the books and then figured out how to put them into practice. He and Chuck walk through the principles and strategies that create success and ...
Jan 01, 2021•1 hr 7 min
We talk with Meryl Dakin, an Elixir engineer at Frame.io, about why they rebuilt their legacy application in Elixir, why they brought in GraphQL and what it’s like to work with the Absinthe Elixir library for GraphQL. We wrap up the episode with a very special Tarot reading using the deck that Meryl gave Sophie last Christmas. Panel Sophie DeBenedetto Alex Koutmos Lars Wikman Guest Meryl Dakin Sponsors Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Picks Lars- SSH Kit Alex- Elgato ...
Dec 29, 2020•53 min
Adam Mokan joins the Mix to discuss crawling the web with Elixir. He starts out by explaining he rather unconventional path to Elixir. At ElixirConf he spoke about crawling the web. He admits that his talk was more about architecture of a highly parallelized app with a restrictive SLA. He talks about managing web crawls and not knowing what your clients will send in. Panel Alex Koutmos Lars Wikman Guest Adam Mokan Sponsors Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders ` Audible.com Picks Ale...
Dec 23, 2020•48 min
