A month ago I posted that java.jdbc 0.3.0 alpha 1 was available for testing and since then I've made a few more alpha releases as the API and code settles down so I figured it was time to blog about the recent changes. Release 0.3.0-alpha4 on 2013-05-11 Fix connection leaks JDBC-54 Allow order-by to accept empty sequence (and return empty string) Release 0.3.0-alpha3 on 2013-05-04 Fix macro / import interaction by fully qualifying Connection type. Release 0.3.0-alpha2 on 2013-05-03 Address JDBC-51 by[...]

Other than noting back in January that all three(!) of my talk proposals were accepted, I haven't blogged about them since, so the only information about them is on the cf.Objective() web site. The session overviews give a fair sense of what you should get out of each presentation and roughly what they'll cover. Since I have just now finished the three presentations and got all the code working, I thought I'd write up some thoughts about the talks, to help folks who are on the fence decide 'for' or 'agains[...]

We've recently started evaluating the New Relic monitoring service at World Singles and when you use their Java agent with your web application container, you can get a lot of information about what's going on inside your application (JVM activity, database activity, external HTTP calls, web transaction traces). For a CFML application tho', all you tend to get in the web transaction traces is the Servlet entry point, some JDBC SQL reports, and some of the low-level Java libraries (if you're lucky!). Howeve[...]

A question was recently asked on the Clojure Users group on LinkedIn about reasons to migrate to Clojure for enterprise applications in a Java shop. It's a fairly typical question from people in the Java world when they hear the buzz about Clojure, and of course asking the question on a Clojure group garnered a lot of positive responses about why Clojure is a good choice. I didn't feel anyone had really addressed a core aspect of the original question which was, essentially, "Why should I, as a Java web de[...]

clojure.java.jdbc 0.2.3 was released in June 2012 and represented the culmination of a lot of maintenance and minor enhancements since I took over the old clojure.contrib.sql project from Stephen C. Gilardi, in order to get it running with Clojure 1.3.0 and move it into the new modular contrib structure that was created to go with that release of Clojure. The journey toward a 1.0.0 contrib release is long and hard, with approval from Clojure/core required for that first major release. Part of that approval[...]