Scott Messinger

Former first grade teacher in Baltimore City Public Schools. Now, software developer & designer. I founded Common Curriculum, a realtime collaborative lesson planner for teachers & schools.

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Railway development in Elixir using `with`

A year ago, I came across the great post by Zohaib Rauf on Railway programming in Elixir. Here was the code Zohaib used as an example »

Author image Scott Messinger 25 March 2016

Dropping down to the Mongo driver from Ecto

Recently, I was needing to drop down to the raw Mongo driver instead of working through Ecto. It turns out it's really simple. Just use MyApp. »

Author image Scott Messinger 23 March 2016

Connect to service outside of your docker container

I was trying out convox.com as an alternative to Heroku (it's fantastic, btw). Convox requires apps to be in docker containers and have a handy »

Author image Scott Messinger 23 March 2016

Hacking on hex dependencies

Tonight, I was trying to debug a bug I was running into with mongodb_ecto (it's a great project, btw). I opened up deps > mongodb_ »

Author image Scott Messinger 15 March 2016

Start coding in Evernote

When I start coding a new feature, I typically start in a program like Evernote where my code won't be runnable. It's a bit unconventional, but »

Author image Scott Messinger 29 July 2015
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