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Clojure editor/IDE options – IntelliJ v Emacs
So all the cool Clojure kids keep wanting me to use Emacs. The problem is that I haven’t used Emacs for the last 10 years – since, in fact, I had to support a C application on about 7 different...
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Clojure on App Engine – my take
I’ve been working on a couple of spare time projects, both of which I hope to release more formally in the next few weeks. One of them involves development of a simple web application for deployment on...
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Struggling with Test Driven Clojure
I’ve recently been working on a Clojure application that I hope to open source soon. It’s been my first experience of using Clojure, and is almost certainly one of the most thought provking things...
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In Clojure, Those Parenthesis Really Matter
Posted in the “I hope no-one else has to go through this” category in the hope that Google surfaces this for some other poor soul. Picture a rather trivial split function: (defn split [str delimiter]...
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Clojure, Partially Applied Functions And Java Interop
I’ve been playing around with partially applied functions in Clojure, and have hit an interesting snag when dealing with Java interop. First, lets examine what partial does in Clojure, by cribbing off...
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Executing A Command Line Program With Clojure
Updated to reflect some feedback and one example of using commons-exec as an alternative to the plain old Runtime.exec Second Update to reflect use of shell-out – thanks Scott! Basic Making use of...
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Creating Sparse Tabular Data With Clojure
In the spirit of making my mistakes in public – something which I have a long history of on this blog – I thought I’d post up a solution I came up with for a relatively simple problem. I’m not unhappy...
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Graphing Hits Per Minute Using Clojure & Incanter
Continuing in a re-occurring series of posts showing my limited understanding of Clojure, today we’re using Clojure for log processing. This example is culled from some work I’m doing right now in the...
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Graphing Unique Users With Incanter
In a previous post, I showed how we could use Clojure and specifically Incanter to process access logs to graph hits on our site. Now, we’re going to adapt our solution to allow us to to show the...
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lein-gentags: Generate TAGS file for your Clojure code
Some yak shaving while playing around with Riemann resulted in me creating my first leiningen plugin, lein-gentags. It uses etags based on instructions from Nurullah Akkaya’s original blogpost –...
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