Hi my name is Bruce. Ive been here since February . I really dont know much…I have a server with a pleroma instance on the fediverse and it got me into pleroma. ive got so many books (pdfs) on it and i just need to get the interest to actually sit down and start learning it much better. I have all kinds of dreams with what id like to do with it on so many different levels. I have so many other interests that im very good at and just want to get this one down. if you want to vistit my instance that doesnt block anything and doesnt care what you say its here: disarray.nof.st . Id like to make some new friends and see if that could maybe get me going…i read these books i have a little…i just need a push…and ill be your friend 
bowner
saleh.mv
I am saleh and I’m fron Iran 
nice to meet you all
I was a php laravel backend developer and I had to learn Elixir
a little difficult at first, but I love the ecosystem
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arianvassili
wiseartisans
Could you please share the materials you used to migrate from Laravel to Elixir? I’m on the same path but I find it too difficult to achieve this goal.
eaverdeja
I’m on the same track and the materials I’ve been using the most are:
All of those are free, except for the Programming Phoenix book. Exercism is just amazing for building self confidence!
I guess that for a Laravel dev what most bridges the gap is the Phoenix book. That’s really in our comfort zone 
- just read it after grasping the basics
mindriot
Hello, I have only just joined but have read topics around here for a few years and learned a lot doing so. I tend to be the kind of person who lurks on the outside but since I have joined I felt I should introduce myself and say hello. So yeah my name is Toby, I’m from Scotland, I come from a background mainly in C# with azure related technologies and typescript + react as front end technologies. I have long had a bit of interest in Erlang (and a few FP languages in terms of concepts rather than use in anger) but never properly gotten into it, over the last couple of years focused a lot of my spare time on Elixir as something that I felt had all the promising elements of Erlang and overcome some of the things I saw at the time as sticking points (some of those things might be lack of experience or may have since improved). More recently managed to bring a little bit of Elixir adoption into my workplace which so far has been a generally positive experience.
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AstonJ
Welcome Toby, nice to see another Brit here 
and well done on jumping in from being a lurker - if any other lurkers are reading this… join up too, you’ll be in good company 
mindriot
I should have joined up a long time ago just to lurk more conveniently. At the time I mainly felt I was quite a bit behind to have useful things as answers and had managed to find answers to my questions without actually asking. I have much enjoyed reading a lot of useful and interesting threads though and hopefully I’ll be in a position to help someone out at some point. Thank you for the warm welcome
wolfiton
Hello everyone, my name is Dan but i am using wolfiton as my nickname and I come from Romania. I know that a lot of people don;t know a lot about my country so instead of me saying some things about it.I think it’s better to let this videos show you what Romania is about.
Fastest Dance in the World Calusul
This is just a glimpse about Romania.
I joined this forum after reading a lot at first as a visitor, after a while I discovered that this community is different. It is build on friendship and help is a natural thing when you ask for it. Also the people value and respect each others contributions to a thread or discussion that takes place on the forum.
As i said in the past I am very honored to be part of this community.
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Maartz
Hello Elixir Forum community,
I’m William from France.
I’ve just finished my studies and I work at Thales. I work on an MES (Manufacturing Execution System) in an industrial context.
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