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Clojure IDEs — The Grand Tour

This post serves as an overview for the available IDEs for Clojure development at present. I won’t go into incredible detail with all of the editors, but I hope to touch on every one. So whether you like Emacs, Vim, Eclipse, IntelliJ or Netbeans there
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Lau
tags: development eclipse emacs ide
Mar 22 2010 05:38 AM
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Approaching Productivity

Time is scarce these days — and with no prospect of any extraordinary reduction in the number of tasks I need to work on my level of productivity. Here are some thoughts on getting more out of Emacs. Preface Productivity is many things, starting with the
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Lau
tags: uncategorized emacs erc productivity
Mar 13 2010 10:59 PM
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Getting benchmarking right

Several times on this blog, I’ve dealt with issues where some kind of benchmarking was required. The method, implementation, environment all play a role and has subsequently been the object of much discussion. In this post let’s see if we can agree on
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Lau
tags: development benchmark clojure consensus
Feb 28 2010 05:00 PM
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Haskell,Ruby,Scala,Clojure — Tweaked!

Last night I did very small superficial comparison, of 3 ways of getting the first fibonnaci number consisting of 1000 digits. This attracted a lot of attention from Rubists, Haskaloonies and Clojurians alike, here I’ll share their contributions.
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Lau
tags: development clojure euler fibonnacci
Feb 24 2010 09:47 PM
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Clojure, Haskell & Ruby Vs Euler 25

Haskell is a mature, statically typed, functional language which was recently compared to Ruby in an attempt to solve Euler #25. In this post I’ll share the code, the benchmark and add a Clojure version for those interested. Preface Normally it’s bad to
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Lau
tags: development clojure euler haskell
Feb 23 2010 08:23 PM
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My tribute to Steve Ballmer

These days Microsoft is often being hammered in both the news and in Open Source communities across the globe, so on behalf of the Clojure community I would like to submit a small tribute to the man at the wheel, Steve Ballmer. Preface Microsoft makes
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Lau
tags: development ascii ballmer clojure
Feb 12 2010 11:24 PM
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Reddit Clone — Now accepting registrations!

About 1 week ago I wrote a small Reddit Clone in about 90 lines of Clojure. The amount interest and feedback was unexpectedly high so I’ve decided to extend the example to a whopping 160 lines as well as echo some of the chatter. Preface My original
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Lau
tags: development clone compojure reddit
Feb 09 2010 09:00 PM
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Simplicity on Steroids

Today I had a lot of fun reading about a for-constructs on steroids. The author of that post explores the possibilities which come with the built-in pattern matching in Scalas for-construct, so I’ll do the same with Clojure. Preface Before reading this
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Lau
tags: development clojure complexity for
Feb 04 2010 09:30 PM
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Reddit Clone in 10 minutes and 91 lines of Clojure

Recently I had the good pleasure of reading this blog post, which demonstrates how to build a Reddit Clone in 100 lines of Common Lisp. I thought it might be interesting to see a port to Clojure, contrasting a couple of idioms and core functions of both
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Lau
tags: development clone common lisp compojure
Feb 02 2010 09:30 PM
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Global Warming Vs Clojure!

Nobody who’s connected to the rest of the world, either via TV or the Internet is unaware of Global Warming — This phenomenon which threatens to destroy us all if we don’t collectively assume responsibility for the globe. Here’s my contribution to a
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Lau
tags: development clojure co2 global
Jan 27 2010 08:30 PM