Category Archives: Programming

Syntactic Pipelines

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Stuart

Lately I’ve been thinking about Clojure programs written in this “threaded” or “pipelined” style: (defn large-process [input] (-> input subprocess-one subprocess-two subprocess-three)) If you saw my talk at Clojure/West (video forthcoming) this should look familiar. The value being “threaded” by … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged Clojure, macros | 6 Comments

Three Kinds of Error

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Stuart

Warning! This post contains strong, New York City-inflected language. If you are discomfited or offended by such language, do not read further … further … further … further … This is about three categories of software error. I have given … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged exceptions | 2 Comments

Clojure 2011 Year in Review

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Stuart

A new year is upon us. Before the world ends, let’s take a look back at what 2011 meant for everybody’s favorite programming language: Clojure 1.3.0 was released, bringing better performance to numeric applications, reader syntax for record types, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged Clojure | 4 Comments

A Hacker’s Christmas Song

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Stuart

I’ll be home for Christmas To fix your old PC. Please have Coke and Mountain Dew And pizza there for me. Christmas Eve will find me In Windows Update screens, I’ll be done by New Year’s If only in my … Continue reading →

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What Is a Program?

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Stuart

What is a program? Is it the source code that a programmer typed? The physical state of the machine on which it is run? Or something more abstract, like the data structures it creates? This is not a purely philosophical … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged Clojure, metaprogramming | 2 Comments

JDK Version Survey

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Stuart

The most recent JDK version poll I could find was from 2008 (thanks, Alex!) so here’s a new one. Loading…

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Design Philosophies of Developer Tools

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Stuart

I’ve been thinking about some of the tools that I use every day, and about the different design philosophies they reflect. Git First and foremost, Git. We use Git on every single project, internal and external. Git is a great … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged Git, Maven, Ruby | 5 Comments

The Naming of Namespaces

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Stuart

From time to time I’m asked, “How do you organize namespaces in Clojure projects?” The question surprised me at first, because I hadn’t thought about it much. But then I was using Clojure back when the only way to load … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged Clojure | 1 Comment

ClojureScript Launch, New York

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Stuart

As you may have heard, last night we (Clojure/core) announced ClojureScript at the Clojure NYC Meetup. Rich Hickey gave a talk, which was streamed live over the web, while we monitored Twitter and IRC for feedback. The event was a … Continue reading →