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 be talking about: Why Clojure and Hadoop are a perfect fit. How to write Hadoop…
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 top of Java, or, more accurately, on top of Java the platform. Look around you,…
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 have incorrect dependencies or other metadata. Also, the process of adding new libraries to the…
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 contrib at http://tapestry.formos.com/maven-snapshot-repository/ Here’s a complete pom.xml file with dependencies on both Clojure and clojure-contrib:…
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 Java world. Clojure lives in the Java world, so that means we have to live…