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One () to Rule them All
Aaron Bedra introduces Clojure and details how ClojureScript – a Clojure subset compiled to JavaScript - helps with web development.
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Event-Driven Programming in Clojure
Zach Tellman explains how to deal with asynchronous programming difficulties in Clojure using an event-driven data structure.
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Functional Thinking
Neal Ford emphasizes the fact that functional programming uses a different way of solving a problem, thinking about the results rather than the steps to make.
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Spring Tooling Update, New & Noteworthy
Andy Clement and Martin Lippert discuss the latest developments in Spring Tool Suite related to Java 7, Spring 3.1, Groovy, Grails, Gradle, and Cloud Foundry.
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Running Spring Java and Scala Apps on Heroku
James Ward demoes building a Spring Roo application and a Grails one, deploying them on Heroku.
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What’s New in Groovy 1.8 and Beyond?
Guillaume Laforge covers the main new features in Groovy 1.8 –DSL with command chain expressions, runtime performance improvements, GPars, closure support, JSON, and what is to come in Groovy 1.9.
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The Mapping Dilemma
David Nolen critiques the tools, languages and methodologies used today from the perspective of solving the “mapping dilemma”, introducing match, a pattern matching library for Clojure.
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Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala
Daniel Spiewak shows how to create immutable data that supports structural sharing, such as: Singly-linked List, Banker’s Queue, 2-3 Finger Tree, Red-Black Tree, Patricia Trie, Bitmapped Vector Trie.
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Grails in the Cloud
Peter Ledbrook outlines the differences between several PaaS providers from the perspective of building, deploying and running a Grails application in the cloud, demoing running it on Cloud Foundry.
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DataMapper on Infinispan: Clustered NoSQL
Lance Ball presents DataMapper, a Ruby ORM library, along with Infinispan, Hibernate Search, Lucene, all running on JBoss AS7 and accessed through TorqueBox, a JRuby application server.
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Clojure and the Web
Glenn Vanderburg discusses how Clojure helps creating web applications, focusing on Ring, Compojure, and how a functional language can be used to generate HTML and XML.
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Clojure: Towards The Essence Of Programming
Howard Lewis Ship talks about Clojure, a language more concise, testable, and readable than Java, letting the developer to focus on his work rather than a verbose syntax.