Starting on December 5th and running for six weeks, the author of "Clojure in Action", Amit Rathore, is leading an online introduction to Clojure course for just $325. See the CodeLesson web site for more details on this Clojure course. I'm fortunate that Amit is local to me so I've attended two of his one-day training courses already. In fact my first real introduction to Clojure was Amit's "ProClojure Bootcamp" back in May 2010 and it was a great jumpstart. More recently I attended his "Day of Macros" co[...]

It's pretty easy to get a Clojure web application up and running on Heroku. Heroku's Dev Center has a good Getting Started with Clojure article that shows you how to install the Heroku client and get your ssh keys setup. It has a very basic "Hello World!" Ring application as the example but you'll probably want something a bit meatier to play with. Here's how to get the FW/1 for Clojure example application running on Heroku... Follow that Getting Started guide to get Heroku setup but when you get to the "W[...]

Now that FW/1 is available for Clojure, you might have looked at the examples that are in the FW/1 github repo and wondered how to create your own FW/1 application from scratch. Assuming you have Leiningen installed, the easiest way to get start is to install the lein-fw1 plugin: > lein plugin install lein-fw1 0.0.3 Copying 1 file to /tmp/lein-c52739ef-eef2-485c-834c-59b4983fafb2/lib Including lein-fw1-0.0.3.jar Including clojure-1.2.1.jar Created lein-fw1-0.0.3.jar</pre> <p>That's a one-of[...]

The first episode of Chas Emerick's new Clojure podcast, Mostly Lazy was published today after being recorded yesterday morning. He picked me as his first interview "victim" (joke - see his follow up blog post wherein Chas clarifies that this is about community, not journalism!) and we covered a lot of ground in half an hour. Those who know me will be familiar with my focus on CFML / ColdFusion and that comes up in the podcast - if you don't know much about CFML (or your knowledge is based on old, outdate[...]

After two years in the CFML world, FW/1 (Framework One) comes to Clojure! Intended to bring the same simple, lightweight, convention-based MVC web application development that has proved so popular in the CFML world to the world of Clojure, FW/1 for Clojure is available on Clojars (0.0.2 right now). If you clone the github repo, you'll see a "user manager" example application which is a port of the same app from the CFML version of the framework. The documentation is, as always, a work in progress but cove[...]