Monthly Archives: September 2009
Two Upcoming Clojure/Hadoop Talks
Hello, everyone. I’ll be performing my Clojure+Hadoop magic tricks at the following events: Friday, October 2: Hadoop World NYC. Use the code hadoopworld_friend for 10% off the registration fee. Monday, October 5: NoSQL NYC Meetup. Free! At both events I’ll … Continue reading
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It’s About the Platform
I’ve said It’s About the Libraries, and indeed, one of the major selling points of Clojure is that it can call Java libraries directly. But there’s more to it than that. Libraries are just one benefit to building Clojure on … Continue reading
Run Your Own Maven Repository With Nothing but an FTP Server
I hope I’ve demonstrated in the last few posts that Maven is pretty cool, not so scary. But the public Maven repositories sometimes leave a bit to be desired. They don’t have entries for every possible library, and occasionally they … Continue reading
Cutting-Edge Clojure Development with Maven
I promised, in my previous post, that I would show you how to use the latest-and-greatest versions of Clojure and clojure-contrib in your Maven projects. Here’s that post. Formos Software maintains a Maven server with nightly builds of Clojure and … Continue reading
Maven’s Not So Bad: Further Thoughts on Clojure Package Management
Update Sept. 4: How to get the latest builds of Clojure & Contrib Maven is a touchy subject. People tend to have strong opinions about it. But like it or not, it’s the de-facto standard for dependency management in the … Continue reading