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How Clojure works for you

Dear Janet, I hope this email finds you well. I know I'm just a fictional character in a fictional email to set up the hook for this blog post, but I was wondering if you could help me speed up our slow library. We use the best algorithms money can

Write Clojure for other developers

So you finally managed to do it, you started a company after all those water cooler criticisms of your previous employers. You can finally do all those “if it were my company” things. So, after meeting your brilliant co-founder and raising a pile of cash from venture capitalists, you begin

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Fix your Clojure code: Clojure comes with design patterns (Part 2)

This post is the second in a series. You can find the first post in the series here where I covered Null Object, Singleton, Command, Observer, State, Visitor, and Iterator. Patterns * Preamble * Builder * Chain of Responsibility * Proxy * Adapter * Template Method * Flyweight * Strategy Our story continues Edmund, a bright, awkward young

Fix your Clojure code: Clojure comes with design patterns (Part 1)

Clojure either directly supports, or easily supports the use of common design patterns like singleton, command, observer, visitor

Clojure needs a Rails, but not for the reason you think

I think there's another reason this problem persists in Clojure. There's no Rails for Clojure.

How Clojure works for you

Dear Janet, I hope this email finds you well. I know I'm just a fictional character in a fictional email to set up the hook for this blog post, but I was wondering if you could help me speed up our slow library. We use the best algorithms money can

Thoughts on Clojurescript and BigDecimal

Turns out, it's a yak barbershop.

wtf is Clojure inlining anyway

If you spend your time digging around clojure.core like I find myself from time to time, you might come across a interesting metadata keyword called :inline. I have never seen :inline in any of the non-core libraries in my career, so I've been digging around to figure out what

Write Clojure for other developers

So you finally managed to do it, you started a company after all those water cooler criticisms of your previous employers. You can finally do all those “if it were my company” things. So, after meeting your brilliant co-founder and raising a pile of cash from venture capitalists, you begin