Another conj, another three days of awesome. Hundreds of Clojurians met in Raleigh, NC for a single track of leading edge talks from the community. What did this year's Clojure/conj have to offer? Here's my view of the highlights... There were several themes that kept coming up over and over again this year which I'll pull out first, then I'll go over all the sessions that I really enjoyed and/or that were especially applicable to my work at World Singles: ClojureScript is growing up fast! Several session[...]

I recently presented Clojure & CFML Sitting In A Tree remotely to the Houston CFUG via Adobe Connect. The presentation was recorded and is available to watch on Adobe Connect: Clojure & CFML Sitting In A Tree. The presentation is also listed on Charlie Arehart's User Group Television which is a great archive of presentations about Adobe-related technologies.

For some time at World Singles, we've been running a suite of Selenium-based tests as part of our automated build. We have been using the selenese Ant task and HTML-based test descriptions. We have 58 tests containing 337 commands and it takes about five and a half minutes to run that section of our build. We can also run most of the individual Selenium tests in the browser using the Selenium core HTML/JS tool. It's been working pretty well for us but there are a couple of sticking points. The first issue [...]

We're expanding our Clojure / CFML development team and looking for our next "Senior Web Applications Developer". You'll get to work from home full-time, with myself, Charlie Griefer and the rest of our small (but growing) development team spread out across the USA. You'll work on our Internet dating platform in both CFML and Clojure. We're all-Mac for development and all-Linux for deployment so you'll need to have some *nix chops and we'd prefer folks with MySQL and MongoDB experience. Yes, I know that's[...]

Last month, I mentioned that I would be giving a talk about using CFML & Clojure together in Melbourne and Sydney in August. Those user groups have posted details of the talk now, so here are the links as promised: MAD! Melbourne Adobe Developers, Tuesday, August 21st, CogState Level 2 255 Bourke Street Adobe Platform User Group Sydney, Wednesday, August 22nd, Level 11, 189 Kent St A big thank you to both groups for being so accommodating in changing their dates to fit my travel plans (and to my wife for[...]