Clojure/West, and much much more! — Mar 20

Clojure moved from “Assess” to “Try”, which is good. Still far from “OMG you should totally use it!”

It is hard to describe what the conference was by way of tweets. The slides are available, and the videos will soon start appearing at InfoQ. Datomic had its official debut and many people talked about real world clojure. There is even a good summary. I had a blast, fwiw.

Run commands on many nodes at the same time via SSH.

Woo hoo! Some clojure projects already had proposals coming in! What does this mean? “Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. We have worked with the open source community to identify and fund exciting projects for the upcoming summer.”

Good progress on creating Clojure bundles for OSGi applications, should you need such thing.

Inspired by D3, but since it is much easier to use, then C2 is an apt name. There is no excuse now for your app not having cool ways to present data…

Here’s to hoping the Scala community finds a good therapist.

“Extract triples from RDFa 1.1 XHTML and HTML documents using Clojure”, for semantic web purposes I take.

Access Wolfram Alpha from clojure, by wrapping the Java API. This is dangerous!