Re: Do you leave a Swank / nREPL in your production servers?

2012-05-25 Thread Sean Allen
I've never done this w/ clojure but in my last job when we were using Gemstone Smalltalk, I made live code changes on a fairly regular basis. Get the quick fix out. Do the complete release cycle later. It was only a difference of 25 minutes, but often worth it. Not for the faint of heart. I felt

Re: ClojureScript source maps

2012-03-24 Thread Sean Allen
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 1:19 PM, John wrote: > Is there any interest in having ClojureScript generate source maps? > > http://code.google.com/p/closure-compiler/wiki/SourceMaps > > There are a couple of ways to accomplish this. > > Lots of interest from me. -- You received this message because

Re: Who's using Clojure?

2011-04-19 Thread Sean Allen
Akamai was at the conj looking to hire clojure programmers so I would assume they are as well. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Damien Lepage wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm on a mission: introducing Clojure in my company, which is a big > consulting company like many others. > > I started talking

Re: Clojure group in DFW area

2011-04-14 Thread Sean Allen
I dont live in the DFW area but come down 1 to 2 times a year to see family, so I'm interested in what you cook up. On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Alex Robbins wrote: > Glad to hear from you. I live and work a little south of the > intersection of 121 and the Dallas North Tollway, so any meeti

Re: Good choices for a NoSQL database with Clojure?

2011-03-26 Thread Sean Allen
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Base wrote: > Thanks All!  I guess I didnt even realize that they were so different > (though that certainly makes sense). > > Basically I want to design a system that will have maybe 30M > (eventually) complex graphs of data that need to be searchable through > ei

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-26 Thread Sean Allen
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:04 PM, ultranewb wrote: > On Mar 24, 7:26 am, Armando Blancas wrote: >> That's quite alright. Nine out of ten people here hate java; > > Actually, I didn't know that.  I imagined that 9 out of 10 people here > would be java-ites.  It's good to know that I'm in good comp

Re: Good choices for a NoSQL database with Clojure?

2011-03-26 Thread Sean Allen
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Base wrote: > hi All - > > Any recommendations on a NoSQL database to use with clojure?  I am > experimenting if it will fit my project better than a SQL db and have > no real experience with them. > > Strong clojure support is obviously important for this.  The o

Re: with-timeout... ?

2011-03-09 Thread Sean Allen
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: >> Yesterday I was writing a bit of code that needs to wait for an >> external event to happen but if it doesn't happen with X amount of >> time, >> to timeout with an error. >> >> Is there a library to handle this? I know you can do it wit

with-timeout... ?

2011-03-09 Thread Sean Allen
Yesterday I was writing a bit of code that needs to wait for an external event to happen but if it doesn't happen with X amount of time, to timeout with an error. Is there a library to handle this? I know you can do it with a future and if you google the general idea, there are a few blog posts, s

Re: websockets w/ clojure

2011-03-05 Thread Sean Allen
- Forwarded message -- > From: Sean Allen > Date: Dec 24 2010, 11:58 pm > Subject: websockets w/ clojure > To: Clojure > > > Jay, > > Do you have any publicly released code I could take a look at? > I've only found a couple of jetty/clojure/websocket example

Re: Why won't leiningen install for me?

2011-01-25 Thread Sean Allen
I wiped my macports a while back, reinstalled everything I needed and stopped having problems like this. On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Mark Rathwell wrote: > > Seems pretty clear that your macports version of curl is the problem, it's > up to you what you want to do about it. I don't know if

Re: list* does not make a list?

2011-01-16 Thread Sean Allen
the documentation on that could be improved. the doc string for that is basically the same as for list. but they return different types. rather surprising when you first see it. On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Alan wrote: > list* consumes its last argument lazily, which means it can't count it

my newbie question...

2011-01-12 Thread Sean Allen
So i've used this because I picked it up from numerous tutorials but I've never really understood it, can I get a some decent background information on ->> and ->? I picked them up from compojure tutorials and don't feel anywhere near comfortable enough w/ what is actually going on. Thanks. -Sea

Re: My first clojure web app

2011-01-10 Thread Sean Allen
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Timothy Pratley wrote: > Neat, looks pretty nice. > I love invitations to nit pick! > database.clj > (defn complete-todo [id] > (dosync (ref-set *todo* (vec (remove #(= (get % :id) id) @*todo*) > 1) ref-set is unnecessary you could re-factor this to use alter.

My first clojure web app

2011-01-02 Thread Sean Allen
I finally moved on from messing around with stuff in the repl and trying to get a firm grasp on all things clojure and dove into doing a little web development with it. I hadn't used ring, compojure or enlive before so I kept that functionality in the app really minimal. I'd appreciate feedback on:

Re: websockets w/ clojure

2010-12-24 Thread Sean Allen
nd used Jetty. Things worked out > fine and there wasn't much code at all to integrate. I'd recommend it. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 24, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Sean Allen > wrote: > > We did a prototype application using websockets for work using node.js as > the

websockets w/ clojure

2010-12-24 Thread Sean Allen
We did a prototype application using websockets for work using node.js as the server. Websocket client connects, sending some basic info... said info is used to repeatedly get new data from a database that is pushed down as it arrives in the db to the client which displays. There will be more than

Re: A suggestion for the next Conj

2010-11-03 Thread Sean Allen
I really like this idea. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Laurent PETIT wrote: > Speed dating at the clojure conj, yay ! (not totally non-sense, really) > > 2010/11/3 Alexy Khrabrov : > > Badges could have much bigger font/be more readable, but they are not the > only, and not the main thing; a mi

Re: Conj arrivals and Thursday night...

2010-10-23 Thread Sean Allen
What hackathon? On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Alex Miller wrote: > The Revelytix crew will be in around dinner time on Thursday. I'm > happy to spring for food during the hackathon courtesy of Strange Loop > or take a group out to dinner - whatever happens to be convenient. > > Alex Miller

Re: Conj arrivals and Thursday night...

2010-10-19 Thread Sean Allen
I get in after a 9 hour train ride around 4:40 + time from train station. Would certainly be up for some non amtrak food once I arrive. On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: > Hey Conj goers, > > I'm scheduled to arrive around 6:30, and after I check in am planning > to spe

Re: Blogs/Twitter accounts about Clojure

2010-09-03 Thread Sean Allen
2010/9/3 Christian Guimarães : > > Everybody here has a common interest. Clojure. And I think that all people > here can contribute with relevant informations. So, why not follow the guys > from this list. > > Interested? Add your twitter account bellow. > > Cheers. > > @csgui (Christian Guimarae

Re: Thinking in Clojure

2010-09-03 Thread Sean Allen
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:29 PM, HB wrote: > Hey, > I finished reading "Programming Clojure" and "Practical Clojure" and > I'm hooked :) > Please count me in the Clojure club. > But I failed how to think in Clojure. > My main career is around Java web applications (Hibernate, Spring, > Lucene) and

Re: Blogs/Twitter accounts about Clojure

2010-09-02 Thread Sean Allen
a few off the top of my head: @fogus @planetclojure @disclojure @stuartholloway @liebke @richhickey blog.fogus.me dosync.posterous.com m.3wa.com nathanmarz.com On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:21 PM, HB wrote: > Hey, > Would you please recommend some good Blogs/Twitter accounts about > Clojure? > Th

Re: Clj on OSX

2010-06-30 Thread Sean Allen
> Thanks very much for your help. Where are you getting the .zip file you > describe? As far as I can tell the Github project only includes a link to > the .jar file. When I try to run that file by double-clicking it I get an > error dialog: "The Java JAR file 'clj-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar' co

Re: Clojure's n00b attraction problem

2010-06-30 Thread Sean Allen
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:56 PM, cageface wrote: > On Jun 29, 10:50 pm, Sean Allen wrote: >> So those who left Java behind years ago but like Lisps in general and Clojure >> in particular and want to minimize their contact with Java, where do >> they fit in your view? >

Re: Clojure's n00b attraction problem

2010-06-30 Thread Sean Allen
> > Tying the fortunes of Clojure to Java was a brilliant move and one > that I've advocated for years but the trend I've seen lately to try to > paper over the Java underpinnings of the language worries me, as does > talk of making Clojure-in-Clojure. There's a small but viable market > for people

Re: State of Clojure web development

2010-06-25 Thread Sean Allen
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:23 PM, James Reeves wrote: > Hello there! > > Chas Emerick's recent "State of Clojure" survey [http://bit.ly/dtdAwb] > indicated that a significant proportion of Clojure users are beginning > to use Clojure for web development. A recent Hacker News posting > [http://bit.l