Re: "lein run" takes an excessive amount of time...

2012-02-18 Thread John Szakmeister
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:50 AM, John Szakmeister wrote: > It appears that when executing 'lein run' that it's examining > dependencies and/or contacting Maven repositories.  This overhead is > adding a considerable amount of time to lein run.  Firing things up > from the command line takes *signi

{ANN} Clojure-Control 0.3.0 is out

2012-02-18 Thread dennis zhuang
Hi,all Clojure-control is a clojure DSL for system admin and deployment with many remote machines via ssh. I am pleased to annoucment that clojure-control 0.3.0 is out.It adds some powerful features in this release ,includes: - ssh and sc

Julia - A new homoiconic language

2012-02-18 Thread pron
Found this announcement and discussion on HN today. Julia is a new Matlab-like technical computing language that has a very interesting design: Dynamic typing

Re: Lack in the documentation

2012-02-18 Thread Gregg Williams
> Please understand that these are* personal notes* and as such are very, > very messy. > > http://seanneilan.com/Clojure.html > In a similar vein, I posted three pages of (early) notes on working with the labrepl tutorial environment, starting at http://www.gettingclojure.com/notes:clojure-notes-l

Newbie to Clojure..

2012-02-18 Thread nazarhussain_s
Hi Folks, Im a newbie to Clojure. I am an IT Developer and into web application development in J2EE. Can anyone please provide info as to whether and how clojure will help me in developing Intelligent web applications and services and any resources for getting started on Clojure.

Re: noob question/request for guidance vis a vis connecting to SQL Server

2012-02-18 Thread VaedaStrike
Thanks for the step through and suggestions. I've got lein and I've gotten through that to run a repl in emacs for the clojurescriptone project. I'll go ahead and go through webnoir and korma as you recommend. I've read up some on korma but I've only heard a bit of webnoir in passing. I think yo

Re: Clojure online university

2012-02-18 Thread diepeglo
+1. To get an impression how this could look like check the upcoming Stanford, MIT and udacity classes: www.class-central.org www.udacity.com and of course not to forget the legendary ai-class.com (Sebastian Thrun's follow-up robotics class is at udacity.com and starts on Monday!!) - Dietmar

Re: Lack in the documentation

2012-02-18 Thread George Oliver
On Feb 14, 9:50 pm, g1i1ch wrote: > It seems > that to fully learn clojure, you first must know java. You can see it > especially in the documentation which is fully java programmer > focused. My problem is that I don't know java and I really don't have > the time to or the desire to learn java

Re: ClojureScript def, vars, and binding

2012-02-18 Thread Brandon Bloom
> I think the question is whether ClojureScript needs to support bound-fn at all. But maybe it really is useful in a single-threaded environment! :) I'm already finding it very useful for an experimental UI framework design I'm working on. I have a dynamically bound "insert pointer", such that U

Re: Lack in the documentation

2012-02-18 Thread Stuart Sierra
> I think the big problem, is that Clojure makes a big deal about being > "Simple". That is, avoiding unneeded complexity, but then throws its > users into the sea of complexity that is Java. > The choice to build on Java definitely takes us away from simplicity, but we gain a lot of power and

Re: Lack in the documentation

2012-02-18 Thread Stuart Sierra
> This will sound obvious to a lot of people, but just this week I had a > real aha moment. It's awesome to be using a lisp in the Java > ecosystem. There's a Java library for just about anything and not a > half-finished library somebody hacked together for their own needs, > but an industri

Re: Newbie to Clojure..

2012-02-18 Thread Linus Ericsson
Nazar, I don't know what you mean by "Intelligent" but please checkout WebNoir [1] for a quick way of building web applications in Clojure. If you are into rich web applications (ie clever client side) ClojureScriptOne [2] also might be an option for you. To just get started with the language (w

Re: Newbie to Clojure..

2012-02-18 Thread Jay Fields
Clojure is not going to help you deliver a website in fewer iterations in the short term. You should learn Clojure to become a better developer for the rest of your career. Here's the simplest reason to learn Clojure: A language that doesnt affect the way you think about programming, is not wor

[ANN] clj-webdriver: Clojure API for Selenium-WebDriver

2012-02-18 Thread semperos
Though this library has been in development for several months, I'd like to publicly announce the availability of clj-webdriver, a Clojure library for using web browsers from Clojure for the purposes of automated web testing (leveraging Selenium-WebDriver under the hood). I've released a brief

Re: tools.logging question

2012-02-18 Thread Alexander Taggart
The options are: - (when (condition? ...) (debug ...)) - Altering of your logging library's configuration file (some logging libs support reloads at runtime, iirc) - Altering your logging library's configuration directly in code (implementation-specific) - Provide your own clo

Re: Lack in the documentation

2012-02-18 Thread abaitam
> > - This Clojure-IDE is actually Eclipse for Clojure (which integrates > > Clojure, Counterclockwise and lein libraries - not as external tools) > > Hang on, you were advocating Clojure for non-Java devs, yes? Yet you > want to inflict Eclipse on them? I'm only half-joking here. Non-Java > develo

clojure-jack-in error

2012-02-18 Thread Base
Hi All - So I have been *attempting* to make the switch to emacs and am running into some issues with clojure-jack-in in Aquamacs. This used to work pretty reliably. Today I tried to jack in and got the following error: Starting swank server... cd /Users/bhajj/Documents/workspace/music/ && lei

Re: clojure-jack-in error

2012-02-18 Thread Phil Hagelberg
Base writes: > So I have been *attempting* to make the switch to emacs and am running > into some issues with clojure-jack-in in Aquamacs. It's pretty common to run into issues when using forks like Aquamacs or XEmacs. Only GNU Emacs is supported. It could be a path issue. You should get more d