Back at Clojure/West in March I gave a talk about World Singles' real world use of Clojure to do "boring stuff": general purpose web application programming. The recording of my talk is now available on InfoQ. It's always a little odd to watch myself giving a talk, especially when it's the first time I've ever given a specific talk and, in this case, particularly when it's the first time I've ever had to give a 25 minute talk (instead of 40-60 minutes). It's a high-level talk. I show a couple of slides of [...]

World Singles uses Clojure together with CFML to great effect. I'll be talking about what's so good about this combination at three user groups in the next couple of months: BACFUG - Bay Area ColdFusion User Group - July 24th then in Melbourne on August 21st and Sydney on August 22nd (I'll add links once those groups have the talk listed). Yes, I'll be in Australia for just over a week in August as my wife is judging a cat show (in Tamworth, north of Sydney). Here's the full details of the talk: World Sin[...]

Another minor update, addressing JDBC-34 by adding a new :connection-uri option so you can specify a raw JDBC URL which is passed directly to the DriverManager class, and fixing a quoting bug when converting Clojure keywords to SQL entities (for example :a.b became [a.b] instead of [a].[b]).

I seem to have forgotten to blog about some recent releases of the Clojure wrapper for JDBC. This post covers those recent changes. Release 0.2.2 on 2012-06-10 Handle Oracle unknown row count affected [JDBC-33] Handle jdbc: prefix in string db-specs [JDBC-32] Handle empty columns in make column unique (Juergen Hoetzel) [JDBC-31] Release 0.2.1 on 2012-05-10 Result set performance enhancement (Juergen Hoetzel) [JDBC-29] Make do-prepared-return-keys public (for Korma team) [JDBC-30] Release 0.2.0 on 2012[...]

I'll be at cf.Objective() this coming week, manning the Railo booth - we're Gold sponsors again! - and, for once, not speaking! However, if you want to learn more about Clojure, especially how we're using it at World Singles integrated into CFML, feel free to track me down and ask me about it. I'll be easy to find: I'll be at the Railo booth nearly all the time (during the day - I'm only planning to attend a handful of sessions; I expect other Railo team members will be attending many of the sessions - Ch[...]