I’ve recently been working on a Clojure application that I hope to open source soon. It’s been my first experience of using Clojure, and is almost certainly one of the most thought provking things I’ve done in a long while. One of the things that is still causing me issues is how to go [...]
Categories: Development, clojure
Tagged: clojure, functionalprogramming, TDD
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- February 16, 2010 – 8:56 pm
- Author:
- By Sam Newman
I’ve been working on a couple of spare time projects, both of which I hope to release more formally in the next few weeks. One of them involves development of a simple web application for deployment on Google App Engine. As part of the development, I had to modify an existing open source Clojure API [...]
Categories: Development, clojure
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- February 14, 2010 – 12:32 pm
- Author:
- By Sam Newman
So all the cool Clojure kids keep wanting me to use Emacs. The problem is that I haven’t used Emacs for the last 10 years – since, in fact, I had to support a C application on about 7 different flavours of UNIX. As you can imagine, I’ve since expunged many of those past memories.
My [...]
Categories: clojure
Tagged: clojure, emacs, ide, intellij
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- January 11, 2010 – 8:11 am
- Author:
- By Sam Newman
I’m currently working on a personal project by way of learning Clojure – it’s actually a program to match up my itemised phone bill against my list of contacts to help me expense my calls. I find it best to have a real-world problem I need to solve to learn a new programming language. The [...]
Categories: clojure
Tagged: clojure, Java, scala, syntax
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- January 10, 2010 – 6:33 pm
- Author:
- By Sam Newman