There's been quite a bit of buzz about ClojureScript since it's launch last July but it is a fast-moving target and a but daunting to get started with. Fortunately, there's a simple Leiningen plugin called lein-cljsbuild that can make it pretty simple to get up and running! I'm going to assume you've already got Leiningen installed so let's get a small FW/1 application up and running and then add some ClojureScript to it. First off, we'll install the Leiningen plugin for FW/1: le[...]

I was very pleased today to get confirmation that my team are all going to Clojure/West in San Jose in March! We've been a CFML house for a decade but we're using Clojure more and more on the back end to provide a high-performance, concurrency-safe foundation for our application. Back in December a couple of us attended Clojure/conj, with three days of Clojure training for one of our team. Now we're training up another team member on Clojure, and in March three of us will attend the Clojure conference, wit[...]

I was very pleased to get an email last night notifying me that my session proposal has been accepted for Clojure/West in March! Due to the number of high-quality submissions, I'll get a 25 minute slot instead of a 50 minute slot so that'll be quite a challenge and I'll have to narrow the focus of my talk to make it fit. Here's the original title and description - the talk will be a subset of this, yet to be decided: Real World Clojure - Doing Boring Stuff With An Exciting Language Clojure is often praise[...]

In years past, I have gone back over each month of my blog and posted a review of the year based on what I've been posting during the year. I skipped that for 2009 and 2010 for various reasons but decided to reinstate it this year because 2011 has been a very different year for me. I left Adobe in April 2007 and went freelance. I spent most of 2008 working at Broadchoice until the development team were all let go in April 2009 when I went back to freelance work (and also joined Railo as unpai[...]

As Clojure continues to evolve, it's a good idea to ensure your projects work with multiple versions of Clojure so that you are prepared for the future. Luckily, Leiningen makes that easy with a plugin called lein-multi which allows you to specify multiple sets of project dependencies and run tests against all of them automatically. Here is a project.clj file that has Clojure 1.3.0 as it's normal dependency but uses lein-multi to provide automated testing against Clojure 1.2.1, the latest alpha of Clojure [...]