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Category Archives: Clojure
Mostly Lazy, back in the saddle
I was stoked to reboot Mostly Lazy by talking yesterday with Chris Houser (a.k.a. Chouser), this time via Skype. It’s good to be back, so go check out the latest episode, maybe follow the @MostlyLazy twitter feed (who knows, it … Continue reading
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Results of the 2012 State of Clojure survey
A few weeks ago, I opened the 2012 State of Clojure survey. Per usual, I wanted to take the Clojure community’s collective temperature, see where we all came from, what we’re using Clojure for, what weaknesses and problems exist, and … Continue reading
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2012 State of Clojure survey
I’ve run “State of Clojure” surveys for each of the last two years (see results from 2010 and 2011), and the time has come for the 2012 edition. The survey itself is embedded below. It will remain open for input … Continue reading
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What sucks about Clojure…and why you’ll love it anyway
I gave a talk with this title at the wonderful Clojure/West conference back in March. The video and slides for it are now available on InfoQ here. You can go watch the talk itself, so I won’t repeat its preface. … Continue reading
Starting Clojure (mk. 2)
I’ve wanted to put together a long-form introductory Clojure screencast for some time. I had an opportunity to do this in grand style yesterday in a live O’Reilly webcast, but, for various reasons, I wasn’t fond of how that came … Continue reading
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A refresh of Clojure Atlas
I’m sorry to admit that I let the Clojure Atlas wilt a bit over the past year or so. (I was a little busy!) However, I am conversely quite happy to say that that’s over now; Clojure Atlas has been … Continue reading
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Friend: an extensible authentication and authorization library for Clojure Ring webapps and services
Say hello to my little Friend. There’s plenty of technical stuff in the README to chew on if you like. In short, I’m hoping this can eventually be a warden/spring-security/everyauth /omniauth for Clojure; that is, a common abstraction for authentication … Continue reading
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‘Clojure Programming’ book finished
Yes — it’s finished! :-D Early last month, after writing 190,000 words, editing away scads more, assembling and testing more than 1,000 code snippets and 20 full sample projects, and conceptualizing dozens of illustrations, Christophe, Brian, and I declared Clojure … Continue reading
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Introducing: Mostly λazy (a Clojure podcast)
As some of you may know already, I’ve started a Clojure podcast called Mostly λazy. The first episode is in the can and has been published. There are RSS feeds for your readers and podcatchers there for the taking, and … Continue reading
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Ambrose has received his Clojure “scholarship”, thanks to you.
The eve of Clojure Conj 2011 is upon us, so I feel compelled get off my butt and finally close the loop on this one. Per usual, you, the Clojure community, have come through. Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant will be attending the … Continue reading
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