Clojure, Ruby and otherwise
Have you ever been assigned a task with a vague note like: “make it fast” or “it should be resilient?” When you were finished, did the result match your boss’s expectations? Probably not. That’s because these quality statements are completely vague
Continue readingThis week’s Clojure Cookbook recipe is a lightning tour of polymorphism approaches in Clojure. I had fun writing this recipe because I’d not seen a lot of these approaches used outside of samples. I hope it provides some insight to you about when/why...
Continue readingIn this week’s Clojure Cookbook preview recipe, we’ll be taking a look at tools.cli, a nifty core library for parsing command-line arguments.
This recipe was really fun to write because of how simple tools.cli is. Since parsing string arguments is...
This recipe from Clojure Cookbook is one of my all-time favorites. Contributor (and all-around awesome dude) Leonardo Borges submitted a two-part series on building custom data structures in Clojure, using core.match no less. I’d never really dug into...
Continue readingFor this week’s Clojure Cookbook preview recipe we’ll be taking a dive
into clj-time, one of my
favorite libraries for dealing with time in Clojure.
Most commonly I use clj-time for its parsing and
formatting
capabilities. The library is a trove of...