Cambridge Clojure Meetup 22nd Sept

The Cambridge (UK) Clojure Meetups have become an informal but regular occurence, weekly on Tuesday evenings at 8pm in the Kingston Arms. I’ll be there next Tuesday.

There’s also a camclj google group set up for discussion.

PeekORE on bitbucket

A while ago, Andrew Walkingshaw and I knocked together a JQuery based tool for visualizing ORE objects in web pages, with the working title of PeekORE. In response to a request from Daniel Gonzalez I’ve finally put PeekORE on bitbucket with an MIT license.

Lightning Talks at the JISC Rapid Innovation Event

I was scheduled to talk about Maven, but popular demand led me to knock together a very quick intro to Clojure.

My clojure presentation was partly the usual soapbox about why functional languages are necessary to allow most programmers to cope with multicore machines, but mostly a quick look at some very simple code.

For the record (and since I wrote ’em, so I might as well publish ’em, here are the slides for the presentation I didn’t give, and the movie of the jetty plugin in action.