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Clojure: State Management

10 months ago by blogger@jayfields.com (Jay Fields) on Jay Fields Thoughts.
Those unfamiliar with Clojure are often interested in how you manage changing state within your applications. If you've heard a few things about Clojure...

Readable Clojure Without a Java Equivalent?

11 months ago by blogger@jayfields.com (Jay Fields) on Jay Fields Thoughts.
I've recently joined a new team and we've been doing a bit of Clojure. If you've never done Lisp (and I hadn't before I found Clojure) it's natural to ask...

Readable Clojure Without a Java Equivalent?

11 months ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
I've recently joined a new team and we've been doing a bit of Clojure. If you've never done Lisp (and I hadn't before I found Clojure) it's natural to ask...

Types of Technical Debt

11 months ago by blogger@jayfields.com (Jay Fields) on Jay Fields Thoughts.
As a developer at DRW, technical debt is often on your mind. Our front office teams work directly with their traders (often sitting directly next to them...

Types of Technical Debt

11 months ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
As a developer at DRW, technical debt is often on your mind. Our front office teams work directly with their traders (often sitting directly next to them...

Random Thoughts on Good Programmers and Good Code

11 months ago by blogger@jayfields.com (Jay Fields) on Jay Fields Thoughts.
I've know some really, really smart guys who write code I hate. I love using their libraries, but I don't ever want to edit their source. To me, their source...

Random Thoughts on Good Programmers and Good Code

11 months ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
I've know some really, really smart guys who write code I hate. I love using their libraries, but I don't ever want to edit their source. To me, their source...

Clojure: Eval-ing a String in Clojure

11 months ago by blogger@jayfields.com (Jay Fields) on Jay Fields Thoughts.
I recently needed to eval a string into Clojure and found it was easy, but it wasn't accomplished in the way I expected. My recent experience with eval...

Clojure: Eval-ing a String in Clojure

11 months ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
I recently needed to eval a string into Clojure and found it was easy, but it wasn't accomplished in the way I expected. My recent experience with eval...

Clojure: if-let and when-let

12 months ago by blogger@jayfields.com (Jay Fields) on Jay Fields Thoughts.
I'm a fan of if-let and when-let. Both can be helpful in creating succinct, readable Clojure code. From the documentation:If test is true, evaluates then...