Based on feedback from the community, I have released clojure.java.jdbc 0.3.0-beta2 to Maven Central. This includes two very important changes: The clojure.java.jdbc.sql and clojure.java.jdbc.ddl namespaces have been removed. The API functions that were already marked as deprecated have moved to the clojure.java.jdbc.deprecated namespace This means that if you depend on the clojure.java.jdbc.sql or clojure.java.jdbc.ddl namespaces, which were introduced in 0.3.0-alpha1, you will need to switch to the jav[...]

This was my third Clojure/conj and the first year it's been outside of Raleigh, NC - with the actual event at the George Washington Masonic Memorial, in a beautiful theater, and lodging at the (expensive) Embassy Suites, just a few minutes away. As usual, the caliber of the talks was (mostly) excellent - which is important in a single track conference - and the hallway / bar conversations were also very educational / entertaining! I'm not going to go over the talks one by one - I think Logan Linn has a gr[...]

The clojure.java.jdbc library has finally hit "feature complete" for the upcoming 0.3.0 release and so the first beta release has been made available. For full details, see the clojure.java.jdbc README on Github but here's a quick list of changes in this release: query as-arrays? true now allows you to leverage lazy result fetching - JDBC-72 "h2" is now recognized as a protocol shorthand for org.h2.Driver Tests no longer use :1 literal - JDBC-71 - (this was due to a change made in Clojure 1.6 that has sin[...]

I've said several times in several venues that I plan to attend Scotch on the Rocks 2014 - as part of my annual visit to see my folks in the UK (my wife judged a cat show there this year and has one scheduled for 2015 so SotR is a great "excuse" to visit in 2014) - so it should be no surprise that I've submitted a talk there. I go back and forth on submitting talks to cf.Objective(). This year I submitted three talks and ending up giving all three talks and, whilst they were well-received, it was a lot of [...]

The cf.Objective() 2014 Call for Speakers is open until November 1st so you have just under two weeks to submit your topics. You can also vote for existing topic submission at that same link. Right now we've only had two general CFML topics submitted (and seven ColdBox-related ones!) but there's a good number of JavaScript-related submissions - and remember that cf.Objective() has a dedicated JavaScript track in js.Objective(), as well as a mobile/front-end track so it's more than a CFML conference... but [...]