InfoQ Homepage Clojure/West 2013 Content on InfoQ
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Macros vs. Monads
Chris Houser and Jonathan Claggett compare macros with monads, suggesting when it is better to use each of them, and pondering what could be done to improve them.
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Functional Infrastructures: It's All Fn until You Hit Production
Antoni Batchelli discusses building an automated infrastructure in Clojure.
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Macros: Why, When, and How
Gary Fredericks discusses macros, what they are, how to write good ones, when to use them and when to avoid using them.
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Code Execution as Data
Zach Tellman discusses instrumenting and analyzing running systems using real world examples from Factual's production systems.
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Introducing ClojureScript-in-ClojureScript
Joel Martin introduces cljs-in-cljs, a compiler for porting all of ClojureScript, including the Clojure top-half and other JVM specific code, to pure ClojureScript.
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Core.logic and SQL Killed my ORM
Craig Brozefsky presents the tradeoffs involved with moving to a purely SQL relational model, instead of using an ORM, along with some of the tools built to facilitate this.
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clojure-scheme: Compiling Clojure to Native Code via Scheme
Nathan Sorenson discusses clojure-scheme, a ClojureScript compiler that translates Clojure code to Scheme code, showing how to compile this Schemified Clojure code to raw C or run it on iOS.
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clj-v8 and the Dieter Asset Pipeline
Paul Biggar shares his experience using clj-v8 and Dieter, two Clojure tools integrated with JavaScript V8 engine, to create web applications in Clojure.
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Global Forest Watch: an Open Source Clojure project to Monitor Deforestation from Satellite Imagery
Dan Hammer presents using Clojure and Cascalog to analyze and classify the spectral time series of each pixel in the humid tropics in an application used to monitor deforestation.
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Metaprogramming Polyfill: Feed Clojure Data to your JavaScript Libraries
Tom White shows how to add JavaScript metaprogramming to ClojureScript prototypes, so that JavaScript libraries can natively use ClojureScript collection classes.
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Simulation Testing with Simulant
Stuart Halloway discusses example-based testing using Simulant, a testing library based on statistical modeling, activity streams, distributed execution, validation, separation of concerns.
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FRP in ClojureScript with Javelin
Alan Dipert introduces Javelin, a ClojureScript library, demonstrating how it can be used to express a variety of asynchronous workflows in concise and composable ways.