Posts tagged compojure

Reddit Clone — Now accepting registrations!

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About 1 week ago I wrote a small Reddit Clone in about 90 lines of Clojure. The amount interest and feedback was unexpectedly high so I’ve decided to extend the example to a whopping 160 lines as well as echo some of the chatter.


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Reddit Clone in 10 minutes and 91 lines of Clojure

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Recently I had the good pleasure of reading this blog post, which demonstrates how to build a Reddit Clone in 100 lines of Common Lisp. I thought it might be interesting to see a port to Clojure, contrasting a couple of idioms and core functions of both languages.


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Dynamic Interactive Webdevelopment

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Ever heard the expression ‘you cant talk yourself out of this one?’, well can I screencast my way out of it? I’ve compiled a little 12 minute screencast where I demonstrate some interactive webdevelopment while showing off Emacs.

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PHP vs Clojure — What does it cost to be old-school?

Today we have many interesting ways to approach webdevelopment. I’ve heard people say “I love PHP because its so productive, I get tons of code hammered down in a matter of hours” — And while thats a nice experience for new programmers it can tend to slur the facts a little bit. Let me try to contrast Clojures (+ Compojures + ClojureQLs) properties with PHPs.

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