- Episode 10 is up – Intro to Macros (here, via @fulldisclojure) — Sean Devlin produces another screen cast, this time covering Macros in clojure.
- New TIOBE index: Scratch, Scala, Erlang and JavaFX Script on the way to top 20. Now where is my fav language Clojure? (here, via @mauritsrijk) — Clojure doesn’t even figure in the top 50. That means this year will be very exciting and we’ll take the language into the top 20 :)
- What are common conventions for working with namespaces in Clojure? (here, via @puredanger) — Interesting question. The answers are of common sense, but only after you’ve read them.
- Requiring all possible namespaces (here, via @jneira) — Ever wanted to find the documentation for a function while at the REPL and found that you needed to ‘require’ the namespace in order for ‘doc’ to work? Well, here is a solution to ‘require’ all namespaces at once, so that this does not happen to you again.
- We’re also OSGi, I’d love to sprinkle some clojure but I don’t think its OSGi safe yet, and its a much bigger mind shift (via @talios)
- Not sure what “OSGi safe” is, but the clojure/OSGi combination appear to work for some definition of that (here, via @cemerick)
- Clojure has loaded classes using the context classloader for some time now (via @cemerick)
- Clojure app on Google App Engine (here, via @sthuebner) — The guys at freitheit.com (proud funders of Clojure) have this AI based personal assistant written in clojure and up on Google App Engine.
- I blogged about factors that made me choose #clojure as my replacement for python (here, via @brehaut) — It’s nice to see Clojure from a pythonista’s eyes. Sometimes we take some things for granted while working in Clojure.
- Why I love everything you hate about Java (here, via @emcconne_reads) — This is tangentially related to Clojure; it is more of a critique on higher level languages in a high-performance production environment. It argues that having the fine-grained level of control that Java provides you is key to manage high performance in large scale systems. Interesting read if you are planning on building a large system in Clojure.
