Clojure 1.2 RC 1 (here, via @stuarthalloway) -- The march to the final release of Clojure 1.2 continues. Very little changes (see changes.txt)
Read our post on Tweetable Code - or How to Read and Write Excel Sheets easily in #Clojure (here, via @ativedk) -- A few weeks ago we reported about a tweet with the code to read some cells on an MS Excel spreadsheet with Docjure. This is a longer article explaining a little bit more about this tool.
Likelihood a user of one of these languages will be interested in Clojure (here, via @Alltop_Social) -- If you are an Ada or Scala programer, you have 10 over 10 chances of being interested in Clojure. This is from crossing TIOBE data with a survey of 487 Clojurians stating what their prior language was.
No more complaining about Clojure boot times plz: new interactive shell task for the next Leiningen release. (here, via @technomancy) -- Now you'll be able to fire up lein and start typing commands in its own REPL, so no fire up a new VM at every command :)
#clojure form validation library #pour (here, via @maclausen) -- From the library's author: "The purpose of the library is to validate form fields to specifiedconstraints/validators and also to convert incoming fields, which are strings,to valid data in the application domain. In the future this library might beable to generate HTML or JavaScript code from form definitions."
Looking for a place to learn and contribute to a widely-used Clojure project? Leiningen has low-hanging fruit (here, via @technomancy) -- You could be the author of some of the new fancy features in Lein 1.3.0!
weekend hacking: Clojure HTML manipulation jquery style:
[clj]($ "http://news.ycombinator.com" a (external-links) (text))[/clj]
(here, via @antoniogarrote) -- Apricot-soup is a library that lets you access and manipulate the content of an HTML page via JQuery-style accessors.