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Namespaces, Vars, and Symbols (Oh, My!)
Craig Andera explains how some of the main Clojure constructs – namespaces, vars, symbols – are processed during the read and eval phases of the compilation.
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Mission: Impossible–Purely Declarative User Interface Modeling
Achim Demelt discusses creating a UI using a completely declarative DSL called S4 without flow control, events or data binding.
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Netflix: Movies, When You Want, Where You Want, from the Cloud!
Jeremy Edberg discusses running Netflix services on AWS: storage, streaming and scaling solutions, multi-region deployments, why cloud over private data center, and architectural snapshots.
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Mobile Social Apps, A Natural Fit
Aryeh Selekman discusses current trends in the mobile space, some of the technologies useful to integrate Facebook functionality into mobile applications and the latest W3C mobile standards under dev.
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Continuous Testing in Clojure
Bill Caputo discusses adopting continuous testing for Clojure, what are the goals of such a practice, how it differs from other languages, practical considerations (tools, setup) and a demonstration.
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Anarchy, Cooperation and the Bazaar
Ola Bini discusses using open source in distributed teams from a sociological, political, and organizational point of view, providing some lessons useful in daily development.
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The Generative Generation
Aaron Bedra shows code samples for writing Clojure tests using the test.generative framework, explaining why this framework and testing are useful.
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The Database as a Value
Rich Hickey discusses the complexity introduced by a database into a system, and a way to deal with it by using Datomic. He also discusses immutability, epochal time, and persistent data structures.
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A DSL for Scripting Refactoring in Erlang
Simon Thompson introduces Wrangler, a refactoring tool written in Erlang for Erlang code and embeddable in common IDEs, such as Emacs and Eclipse.
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iOS Vulnerabilities and Fixes
Graham Lee discusses some of the vulnerabilities that may affect Objective-C programming, offering solutions to avoid them.
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Beauty is in The Eye of the Beholder
Alex Papadimoulis attempts to define ugly code, how one can recognize it, providing advice on avoiding writing such code and refactoring old code to get rid of it.
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AIR Matters
Kevin Korngut introduces Adobe AIR, a cross-platform runtime environment for desktop and mobile applications.