The folks at SkillsMatter in London are hosting the Functional Programming eXchange 2012, on March 16, 2012, in London! Join the Functional Programming community for a one-day conference jam-packed with talks, open-space discussions and brainstorming. Lea[...]

I was chatting with @iorayne a.k.a. Raynes (IRC) a.k.a. Anthony Grimes today in #leiningen about changes required for plugins in the upcoming Leiningen 2.0 release. I was interested in updating my lein-fw1 plugin so it would work with both Leiningen 1.x a[...]

About a week ago, I blogged about how to get started with ClojureScript and FW/1 and I showed some basic DOM manipulation functions that go down to the JavaScript metal. In any real world project, you're not going to want to do that - you'll w[...]

There's been quite a bit of buzz about ClojureScript since it's launch last July but it is a fast-moving target and a but daunting to get started with. Fortunately, there's a simple Leiningen plugin called lein-cljsbuild that can make it pretty [...]

I was very pleased today to get confirmation that my team are all going to Clojure/West in San Jose in March! We've been a CFML house for a decade but we're using Clojure more and more on the back end to provide a high-performance, concurrency-safe founda[...]

I was very pleased to get an email last night notifying me that my session proposal has been accepted for Clojure/West in March! Due to the number of high-quality submissions, I'll get a 25 minute slot instead of a 50 minute slot so that'll be quite a cha[...]

In years past, I have gone back over each month of my blog and posted a review of the year based on what I've been posting during the year. I skipped that for 2009 and 2010 for various reasons but decided to reinstate it this year because 2011 has b[...]

As Clojure continues to evolve, it's a good idea to ensure your projects work with multiple versions of Clojure so that you are prepared for the future. Luckily, Leiningen makes that easy with a plugin called lein-multi which allows you to specify multipl[...]

Starting on December 5th and running for six weeks, the author of "Clojure in Action", Amit Rathore, is leading an online introduction to Clojure course for just $325. See the CodeLesson web site for more details on this Clojure course. I'm fortunate that[...]

It's pretty easy to get a Clojure web application up and running on Heroku. Heroku's Dev Center has a good Getting Started with Clojure article that shows you how to install the Heroku client and get your ssh keys setup. It has a very basic "Hello World!"[...]