Easily Reloading your Clojure Project in Spacemacs

I’ve long been a fan of Stuart Sierra’s reloaded workflow. When I’m working on a ClojureScript project that doesn’t use Figwheel or another tool to assist with live code reloading, this is the pattern I reach for to help manage iterative and interactive development.

Clojure Development in Spacemacs

I’ve recently been doing some basic Clojure development, and it’s been a huge blast. I’ve played around with it in the past, but never bothered to fully set up a development environment. This time, however, I decided to spend a few evenings perfecting my workflow and becoming familiar with the tools available, focusing on my editor of […]

Rigging up Sublime Text for Clojure Development

I recently started working on a project using Clojure. Since it’s my first experience with the language, I decided to invest a bit a of time setting up Sublime Text so that my editor would be tuned to conquer the oh-so-many parens and the build-and-test workflow provided via Leiningen. I wanted to capture and share this setup to […]

Pitfalls to Avoid When Moving from Clojure to ClojureScript

I’ve been excited about ClojureScript, its community, and the new tools and libraries that have been appearing, but I’ve only recently started working with it. Using ClojureScript to power a web (or mobile) client to a Clojure backend service seems really compelling. It’d allow for easily sharing code or logic between the different components, as well […]

Exploring Logic Programming in Clojure’s core.logic – Overview & Understanding Palindromes

Ever since I saw William Byrd and Dan Friedman present on miniKanren at Clojure/conj a few years ago, I’ve been distantly interested in the topic of logic programming. Recently, my interest has intensified, so I picked up a copy of The Reasoned Schemer and have been working through it.

Setting up a Project with Ember and Clojure

I recently found myself starting a project where, for a variety of reasons, it made a lot of sense to use Ember.js to build our interface while using Clojure to power our API.

Understanding Homoiconicity in Clojure

For my recent LambdaJam workshop on learning Clojure macros from first principles, I created a set of materials exploring the basic concepts. To really understand macros, you first need to have a good understanding of what makes them so powerful — homoiconicity. In this post, we’ll explore that property of the language. Code Is Data; […]

Behind the Scenes with CHICKEN Scheme (Part 1)

For the past couple years, I’ve been playing with the Lisp family of languages, namely Common Lisp, Clojure, and Scheme. One of my favorite languages for hobby coding is CHICKEN Scheme, a mature, high-performance implementation of Scheme that compiles to portable C code. CHICKEN’s variety of built-in features and downloadable libraries, excellent FFI support, and […]

Experimenting with Clojure’s PersistentHashMap in JRuby

Over the last few months, I have written two blog posts that mention using Hamster (Efficient, Immutable, Thread-Safe Collection) classes in JRuby: Preventing JRuby Concurrency Errors with Hamster and Making Refs in Ruby Using Celluloid Actors. The latter post was commented on by Mike Busch he mentioned his evaluation of Hamster and comparing it to […]

Clojure Conj 2012: Logic Programming, ClojureScript, and the Importance of Small Services

The third Clojure Conj, a conference dedicated to the Clojure community, was held in Raleigh, NC the second weekend in November. I was in attendance, along with fellow atoms Drew Colthorp and Scott Vokes. For those unaware, Clojure is a modern dialect of Lisp that was built on top of the Java Virtual Machine. Clojure, […]

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