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Clojure Conj 2011 – Learning more pt.1

Feb 1, 2012

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. ...

The best things and stuff of 2011

Dec 31, 2011 some comments

Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2011. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new. Great blog posts read Xv6: Unix v6 Ported to ANSI C, x86 -- in fact, the OS Blog is one ...

The Road to Clojure Survey

Dec 20, 2011 one comment

The following form is an informal survey gauging the roots and inspirations of the Clojure community. The tone and text is (mostly) inspired (stolen) from the classic Road to Lisp Survey. Loading... :F p.s. This is my 1000th post. Seems fitting.

Announcing core.memoize v0.5.1

Dec 14, 2011

core.memoize is a new Clojure contrib library providing the following features: An underlying PluggableMemoization protocol that allows the use of customizable and swappable memoization caches that adhere to the synchronous CacheProtocol found in core.cache Memoization builders for implementations of common caching strategies, including: First-in-first-out (memo-fifo) Least-recently-used ...

Announcing core.cache v0.5.0

Dec 13, 2011 some comments

core.cache is a new Clojure contrib library providing the following features: An underlying CacheProtocol used as the base abstraction for implementing new synchronous caches A defcache macro for hooking your CacheProtocol implementations into the Clojure associative data capabilities. Immutable implementations of some basic caching strategies First-in-first-out ...