Category Archives: General

Calabash: Functional testing for mobile apps

I’m happy to announce that we at LessPainful have just released Calabash as open source. Calabash is a library and toolchain for automated functional tests for iOS and Android. Read more in the introductory post: http://blog.lesspainful.com/2012/03/07/Calabash/

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Clojure Users Group: Meetup in copenhagen, may 12th

I’ve managed to arrange a free DCUG meetup in Copenhagen in conjunction with Goto CPH. We will be several Clojure “stars”: Christophe Grand and Lau Jensen, Stefan Richter and Stefan Tilkov. Right now we have only one registration apart from … Continue reading

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Clojure without the parentheses: looks a bit like ruby :)

I gave an introductory talk about Clojure at Trifork yesterday: https://secure.trifork.com/aarhus-2010/freeevent/index.jsp?eventOID=2713 I really wanted to focus on the core of Clojure: things like time/state management, functional programming, programming to contracts, meta programming, host interop, dynamics, interactivity and expressive power. I … Continue reading

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Conj-labs Clojure lessons part i

I attended the first conj-labs in Brussels, June 23-25. It was three days of intense Clojure learning with Clojure profiles: Christophe Grand and Lau Jensen. I must say it exceeded my expectations! Everyone was great and I really feel it … Continue reading

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Is it just me or is this important

for all JVM-based languages http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/06/azul_ori?

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clj-ds: Clojure’s persistent data structures for Java

One of the appealing features of Clojure is the pervasive use of (efficient!) persistent data structures. (In previous posts I’ve shed some light on how PersistentHashMap and PersistentVector are implemented, although some of that information is slightly dated now). There … Continue reading

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Stomple RC1: Combining WebSockets and Reliable Messaging

I’ve finished Release Candidate 1 for Stomple, my JavaScript Stomp library which uses WebSockets to access compatible Stomp Message Brokers (which includes JMS providers via StompConnect). Stomple is heavily inspired by Jeff Mesnil’s great stomp-websocket, but aims to be feature … Continue reading

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Stomple: JMS via WebSockets

I’ve spent a couple of days working on Stomple (pronounced “stumble”). Stomple aims to be an easy to use, full-featured and robust Stomp client for JavaScript. You can watch a screencast of the transactional chat example. Screencast of transactional chat. … Continue reading

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Clojure: Rich Hickey and Stuart Halloway at JAOO

See Danish Clojure Users Group posting.

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