Notes on Cloure XML Parsing (Wednesday, June 23, 2010) - I figured I'd share some quick notes I had on a simple task that's not exactly strait forward in Clojure to the Lisp neophyte, like myself: XML Parsing. Clojure goes a long way to making it easy with clojure.xml.parse/xml-seq but complete/concise examples can be difficult to come by. XML All of the examples I'll outline below will depend on the following xml
Groovy: Dynamic Language for the JVM... Groovy! (Friday, October 23, 2009) - I'm continuously encouraged by the influence dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python have had on mainstream runtimes like the CLR and JVM. Direct ports like JRuby, Jython to the JVM and IronRuby and IronPython to the CLR are truly exciting. More exciting still are languages like Boo that are built from the ground up for mainstream runtimes. I've finally had
Clojure, A Lisp for the JVM and CLR (Sunday, December 13, 2009) - I've been becoming increasingly interested in functional languages in the last few years and I'm apparently not the only one. It's pretty hard to listen to any general purpose software development podcast without hearing about Erlang, Haskell or F#. Another one came up recently that I just had to play with. It's a Lisp variant named Clojure. The reason I find
Mirah, Ruby Syntax on the JVM (Tuesday, March 29, 2011) - Although languages like Java and C# have soured with me over the last few years I still believe their runtimes (the JVM and CLR respectively) are sound. A sizable portion of the code I write for my day job is in JRuby. We get a number of advantages from that. We can use the industrial-strength infrastructure components Java brings to the table and leverage mountains
