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Reading for the Rushed

Feb 22, 2012 some comments

People sometimes ask me how I'm able to read 70+ books every year despite my extra-curricular, professional, and authoring activities. The truth is that although my reading count the past few years has remained fairly consistent, it's far less than my ...

Dancing monkey gibbers on about macros and such…

Feb 20, 2012

My talk The Macronomicon from the 2011 Clojure Conj :F

Announcing ring-clj-params

Feb 15, 2012

What is it? A Ring middleware that augments :params according to a parsed Clojure data literal request body. Where is it? https://github.com/fogus/ring-clj-params Usage Leiningen In your :dependencies section add the following: [ring-clj-params "0.1.0"] Ring To use this middleware using Ring and Compojure, create a new Leiningen project with a project.clj file ...

Where is LL.next?

Feb 10, 2012

Update: David Nolen created an LL.next Google Group. I'm hoping beyond hope that it works! I'll be there to help. Some time in late 2001 MIT held an event called the Lightweight Languages Workshop or LL1 for short. While I'm certain the ...

Clojure Conj 2011 – Learning more pt.1

Feb 1, 2012 one comment

By my measure, the second Clojure Conj was a smashing success. I wrote summaries of the mainline Conj activities and the unconference activities if you need some context. The amount of brain power on tap at the conference was intoxicating. ...