Phoenix Is Not Rails

I have been following the Elixir community and the Phoenix framework in particular. I feel a certain familiarity between Ruby and Elixir, and Rails and Phoenix. Chris McCord, the creator of Phoenix writes, a thoughtful post on the differences, and more importantly why they matter. Sometimes, differences in Software Engineering can be esthetic only (e.g. plural vs singular database table names); Not so with these. He makes compelling arguments on the technical choices made in Phoenix.

How To Charge For Open Source

Mike Perham, the creator and maintainer of Sidekiq, explains how to go about making a business out of Open Source Software. Uncharacteristically for the internet, the comments for this post are actually very interesting, as are the links. For a more in-depth conversation into the same topic, hear (or read the transcript) of Mike’s guest appearance at the Ruby Rogues Podcast

What Is SemVer

SemVer, short for Semantic Versioning, is a convention for software version numbering. I have been using it very successfully at work with for internal gems and bundler pessimistic locking (~> operator). In this post Richard Schneeman, explains the practical aspects of choosing a release number, including security releases.