JAX Innovation Awards: The Technology-Finalists are: #Akka, #Clojure, #Gradle, #JRebel, #Neo4j --> VOTE NOW (here, via @JAXenterCOM) -- You know what to do...
Lazy Evaluation Recursive Grammar Combinators for Clojure (here, via @danielllo) -- Monadic parser combinators that is, but implemented in Clojure, and with a different kind of lazyness (the original implementation is done in gopher, a statically typed lazy language).
Missing dependency? Oh no! (here, via @stuartsierra) -- Maven is your friend, except those times when it is not... then it is your enemy. Sometimes Maven can't find a dependency. This article provides tips to beat Maven into submission. (I Love this comment: "Taking a sip of scotch every time you type “mvn” will get you through the day" by Alex Miller. Alex my friend, either your days are very short, or you can take a lot of scotch!)
Finally! a #clojure toolbox for #hadoop that isn't 100% tied to #ec2 (here, via @jclouds) -- If you are a hadoop user you know how much time this will save you; a new project has been announced that allows you to describe full hadoop clusters as a data structure and then have pallet automatically build them for you, on any cloud provider (thanks to jclouds). (Disclosure: I am part of this effort) Here's the project, and here is an example project. WIP, feedback appreciated.