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Gaining More Clojure Insight Through Cfmljure
I mentioned it in passing in one of my early posts about using Clojure from CFML but, since only one person signed up, thought it was worth mentioning again: there is a mailing list for cfmljure where you can ask questions about the project and Clojure itself or, if you’re …
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September 23, 2011 -
Handle All Your ColdFusion Projects With Leiningen
Leiningen is a build tool for Clojure that handles all of your project / library dependencies and makes it easy to work in a more test-driven development style. Once you’ve installed Leiningen, you can start a new project, on the command line, by typing lein new myproject and it will …
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September 22, 2011 -
Using Clojure Code Within CFML
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll have seen me posting about Clojure quite a bit recently. I really like the simplicity and elegance of Clojure. I like the function programming style. I like that it’s a dynamic scripting language. I like that it can also be compiled to JVM …
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September 21, 2011 -
The End Of CFUnited
Many blog posts have expressed their sadness at the passing of what has become one of our community’s great traditions: CFUnited. I’ve been fortunate enough to attend the last seven years – as a speaker – and it’s always been a unique event, with the largest gathering of CF developers …
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September 20, 2011 -
Adobe Leave The CFML Advisory Committee
By now, many of you will have read Adam Lehman’s blog post that Adobe is no longer part of the CFML Advisory Committee. Adam had initially disabled comments (but now he’s opened things up) on that post and folks have been asking me all morning for my take on this …
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July 26, 2010 -
Important Hotfixes For FW/1 1.0 And 1.1
Two FW/1 users ran into a problem with error handling where methods from the wrong subsystem could be called if an exception occurred. I considered this an important enough issue to provide hotfixes for previous releases. You can now download tagged releases for 1.0.1 and 1.1.1 which incorporate the error …
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July 13, 2010 -
Why Scala Makes Sense
I’ve not been blogging much lately because I’ve been heads down in a large ColdBox / ColdSpring / Reactor project and it’s literally been taking all my time. What free time I ought to have has been consumed by FW/1 and managing the growing Railo Consulting business! The large project …
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June 15, 2010 -
A Mouth Watering Preview Of CFUnited 2010
Now cf.Objective() is over (yes, I will blog about it soon!) and I find myself not going to Scotch on the Rocks or NCDevCon, my conference plans turn to CFUnited 2010. This blog post captures my current thoughts about the sessions listed so far (there are still quite a few …
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May 18, 2010 -
Learning The Clojure Programming Language
This past weekend, I attended Amit Rathore’s ProClojure boot camp to learn the Clojure programming language. Back in the 80′s, I had quite a bit of exposure to Lisp but haven’t had cause to use those techniques since. Clojure is essentially Lisp reinvented for the JVM. I’m already using Scala …
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May 4, 2010 -
Official cf.Objective() 2010 Schedule Announced
Voting ended March 31st and the most popular eight topics have been selected and added to the schedule for Friday night (22nd):
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April 6, 2010