I'll be at cf.Objective() this coming week, manning the Railo booth - we're Gold sponsors again! - and, for once, not speaking! However, if you want to learn more about Clojure, especially how we're using it at World Singles integrated into CFML, feel fre[...]

Your application is live but it isn't quite behaving the way you expect - what do you do? You'd like to instrument the code, you'd like to be able to run parts of your production code in the live environment and look at the output, you might even li[...]

With Clojure 1.4.0 available and Leiningen 2 in preview, I felt it was time to update FW/1 and the FW/1 template to have updated dependencies. FW/1 now uses Clojure 1.4.0, Ring 1.0.2 and Enlive 1.0.0. The FW/1 template has been updated and verified for us[...]

A very small maintenance release: thrown exceptions are automatically unwrapped so you should no longer need to catch a RuntimeException when you're trying to catch a SQLException!

Clojure 1.4.0 has been released and it includes several nice enhancements and some bug fixes. Everyone will have their favorites but mine include (in no particular order): mapv and filterv (which return vectors) and reduce-kv (can treat a vector as a col[...]

It wasn’t long after college that I found myself blogging about the technology I was using on a regular basis. I have pretty good writing skills and am damn good with the code so soon after I was easily breaking 10K hits per post. Having a platform to sha[...]

World Singles is looking for a smart, motivated developer to join our small, fully distributed team of engineers, working on our multi-lingual, multi-tenant Internet dating platform. We're after someone with strong data management skills who can help us m[...]

When I wrote my summary of the conference, I forgot something very important: you can download nearly all of the Clojure/West 2012 presentations from github. Some of the files are quite large so you may not be able to simply view the raw PDF on github - y[...]

Fizz-Buzz or Bizz Buzz is a word game, popularized by Jeff Atwood in the article: Why Can’t Programmers… Program? The game has been turned into a simple programming test: Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples o[...]

My team recently attended the first Clojure/West conference in San Jose, organized by Alex Miller, the man behind the incredible Strange Loop conference. Back in November, I attended the second Clojure/conj conference (my first) with one of my[...]