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Systems that Run Forever Self-heal and Scale 23 Aug 2013 | 01:36 am
I recently saw a great presentation by Joe Armstrong called “Systems that run forever self-heal and scale” . Joe Armstrong is the inventor of Erlang and he does mention Erlang quite a lot, but the pri...
“Cooking for Geeks” by Jeff Potter; O’Reilly Media 10 Aug 2013 | 10:57 am
And now for something completely different… cooking! I’ve always been intrigued by “Cooking for Geeks”. I came across it several times, and finally when I saw it in O’Reilly Blogger Reviews program I...
Client-Side Routing with Pedestal 31 May 2013 | 01:00 am
It’s fairly common for rich web applications to use some kind of client-side routing: Load the application once, then navigate with special URLs like http://example.com/#/subpage. Browser doesn’t perf...
Getting Started with Pedestal on Client Side 17 May 2013 | 01:15 am
I finally got to spend a longer while with Pedestal. It is a pure Clojure web framework, where by pure I mean that you’ll see Clojure on back- as well as front end. For starters I only focused on the ...
Two Ways to Access Properties in ClojureScript 28 Mar 2013 | 05:37 pm
There are two pairs of complementary functions to set properties on objects in ClojureScript. One is aset and aget, another is set! and .-propname: Are they equivalent? Is syntax the only difference? ...
Angular Tutorial Rewritten to ClojureScript 16 Mar 2013 | 10:06 pm
Over the last few months I learned some more ClojureScript and I finally came back to Angular. First I followed their excellent tutorial. Then I decided to rewrite it to plain Clojure and ClojureScrip...
ClojureScript Does Not (Always) Need Painkiller 7 Feb 2013 | 01:59 am
A few weeks ago I shared my confusion about writing object-oriented ClojureScript and a little library called cljs-painkiller. Thanks to the awesome Clojure / ClojureScript community I soon learned mu...
“Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests” (Book Review) 31 Jan 2013 | 11:16 pm
“Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests” by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce has been on my to-read list ever since I saw Steve at 33rd Degree 2011. Even though I did not really like the present...
ClojureScript Painkiller (for OOP) 17 Jan 2013 | 02:17 am
When I learned and used ClojureScript, I really hated writing code that looks like this: That’s so much ceremony and repeated waste! I know it’s not how you’re supposed to write ClojureScript, but som...
Get Started with ClojureScript with Leiningen Templates 2 Jan 2013 | 06:10 pm
When I was about to get started with ClojureScript, I was discouraged by the fact that I apparently had to figure out so much before getting a trivial project up and running. Eventually I learned, bui...