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Clojure 2011 Year in Review
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
A Hacker’s Christmas Song
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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JDK Version Survey
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
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
The Naming of Namespaces
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
ClojureScript Launch, New York
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
Vote for Clojure at JAX Innovation Awards!
Vote for Clojure as the Most Innovative Java Technology of 2011!
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Dependency Management First-Aid Kit
This article attempts to unravel some of the mysteries of dependency management with Maven and Maven-based tools. Help, something’s missing! Say you have a project named “my-new-project” which declares a dependency on version 3 of the “awesome-sauce” library by the … Continue reading
Speaking at ÜberConf Denver in July
I’ll be speaking at Über Conf 2011 In Denver, CO July 12th to 15th. I’m doing three (gulp!) sessions: two on Clojure, and one on my work with AltLaw.org.