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Today in the Intertweets (Nov 24th Ed)

A Sudoku solver (here, via @jneira) — This is a re-interpretation of Peter Norvig’s sudoku solver in Clojure (instead of Python).
This seems like a nice website for getting #clojure updates – http://disclojure.org/ (via @markhneedham) — I wholeheartedly agree!
New chapter added to Clojure in Action by @amitrathore in MEAP! (here, via @ManningBooks)
Clojuresque 1.1.0 released (here, via [...]

Today in the Intertweets (Nov 23rd Ed)

A circuit breaker in Clojure (here, via @Raymondz5ly) — Using deftype and defprotocol! A circuit breaker is a mechanism designed to stop one system from attempting to contact another system if failure is detected, in order to prevent overloading such failing system and also to prevent the calling system to wait indefinitely. You can find [...]

This weekend in the Intertweets (Nov 22nd Ed)

(NOTE: somehow this article got posted in the wrong place of this blog yesterday… so I am reposting it today)

Clojure: A few things I’ve been tripping up on (here, via @planettw) — This article gives an insight on some difficulties that newcomers to LISP in general and Clojure in particular. Sometimes it is easy to [...]

Today in the Intertweets (Nov 19th Ed.)”

Looks like @stuarthalloway made a quite splash introducing Clojure at QCon, judging for all the tweets. Here are some tweeted quotes:

“starting with TDD for a new programming language isn’t a great way to learn” (via @samnewman)
“Relevance believes in using BDD with FP” (via @deanwampler)
“clojure.test is nice compared to others, but Ruby kicks everybody’s ass when [...]

Today in the Intertweets (Nov 18th Ed.)

Don’t forget there is clojure support in org-babel now (here, via @jolby) — this is an extension to Org-mode for Emacs that lets you execute the code you’re writing
Another easy 2x speedup for Brian’s Brain (here, via @cgrand) — Another 2x improvement (see previous article)
on a similar note … The beauty of grey: Brian’s Brain [...]