• Emacs Front End to the Clojure Debugging Toolkit (here, via @jneira) -- Instead of blaming myself for failing to report a couple of days ago on the advances in George Jahad's Clojure Debugging Toolkit (which is what would be appropriate since he personally told me he was readying this version a couple of weeks ago,) I will blame him for not using twitter to announce these things! Ha! The debugger now has Emacs front end, with a number of commands to create, list breakpoints, go up and down the stack and stuff like that.
  • Blogged about Rodney Leonard Stubbs, the simplest stubs for Clojure via Leiningen (here, via @technomancy) -- A new feature of Leningen that will let you run integration tests by (almost)transparently replacing real services for stubbed-out ones. When running tests, this lein plugin looks for special metadata tags in vars in your test code and replace the tagged vars with the referenced stubbed objects.
  • Posted blog about micro-benchmark using Clojure 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 Alpha 1 (here, via @mauritsrijk) -- As 1.3 is progressing there is a lot of interest in its performance improvements. This microbenchmarks don't test any of the new static or primitive types enhancements, and even then, 1.3a1 is 10% faster than 1.2.
  • A clojure stomp client implementation based on discussion in the irc channel (here, via @ninjudd) -- Stomp is a streaming text oriented protocol that aims at maximum interoperability. The IRC discussion he mentions is related to using Stomp as a (suggested) wire protocol for nREPL, the networked REPL.
  • Clojure 1.3 First Impression (It's Fast) (here, via @HNTweets) -- The author of Learning Clojure talks about how with little changes his numerically intensive code runs much faster in 1.3a1 than it does in 1.2. Much much faster.