I recently started learning Scala (you know when the New York Times
refers to Java as an "older" language, it's time to update!). As I've...
1 replies - 6137 views - 03/29/11 by Wayne Adams in Articles
I've recently joined a new team and we've been doing a bit of Clojure.
If you've never done Lisp (and I hadn't before I found Clojure) it's
natural to ask...
6 replies - 5027 views - 03/25/11 by Jay Fields in Articles
I have recently started work on Seph again. I preannounced it last summer (here),
then promply became extremely busy at work. Busy enough that I didn’t...
0 replies - 3772 views - 03/14/11 by Ola Bini in News
I recently needed to eval a string into Clojure and found it was easy,
but it wasn't accomplished in the way I expected. My recent experience
with eval was...
0 replies - 3608 views - 03/03/11 by Jay Fields in Articles
There has been quite a few inflamatory discussions in the twitterverse
and the blogosphere recently regarding some of the ultra-functional
voices...
0 replies - 3640 views - 03/02/11 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles
I'm a fan of if-let and when-let. Both can be helpful in creating succinct, readable Clojure code. From the documentation:If test is true, evaluates then with...
0 replies - 3709 views - 03/02/11 by Jay Fields in Articles
Truthy and Falsey are important concepts in Clojure. The best description I've seen is in The Joy of Clojure, go buy it.Depending
on your language...
0 replies - 3862 views - 02/28/11 by Jay Fields in Articles
The next generation of the Infinispan open-source data grid platform has been released. API enhancements include changes to RemoteCache, and the ability to...
0 replies - 19709 views - 02/22/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Recently, in one of the mailing lists, someone asked about video
tutorials to learn a programming language. That email made me wonder how...
8 replies - 4427 views - 02/18/11 by Veera Sundar in Articles
At the beginning of this month, I compared the job trends for traditional programming languages
like C++, Java and others. This is the second post of the...
9 replies - 16908 views - 02/10/11 by Robert Diana in News
Inside the body of defmacro you can call &env and &form to get a bit of interesting information that may or may not be helpful.Here's a few examples...
1 replies - 2890 views - 02/07/11 by Jay Fields in Articles
After 10 years programming in Java, I felt learning a new programming language, specifically in the functional languages world, will make me fresh. After a...
8 replies - 10588 views - 01/31/11 by Sina Bagherzadeh in Articles
TIOBE Software published its annual TIOBE Programming Community Index.
The ranks are lead by the usual suspects Java, C, C++, and PHP. But the
language...
13 replies - 17419 views - 01/22/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
NetBeans Platform Architect Jaroslav Tulach recently posted some surprising news on the JUnit Yahoo Group. "We have new lawyers," he said, and...
0 replies - 18641 views - 01/18/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Continuing the mini-series on Dependency Injection (see my previous blogs: problems with DI, assisted inject for CDI and improving assisted inject), I took a...
2 replies - 6070 views - 01/14/11 by Adam Warski in Articles
