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to-jdbc-uri 0.5.0 released
We just released to-jdbc-uri 0.5.0 with support for URL parameters. Courtesy of Joe Kutner. I’d like to note, sometimes I hear that the Clojure community doesn’t care about testing, but to-jdbc-uri has a very complete testing suite and so far, this and other contributions came fully tested.
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How I found one of the earliest browsers in history
Yesterday, the web celebrated its 25th birthday and to join in, I have a little story. A couple of years ago I found a NeXTcube. I’m not going to say where it is to avoid vandalism (the computer is publicly accessible under some circumstances without much oversight), but this is the story. Sir Tim Berners-Lee…
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How to legally submit an app to Apple’s App Store when it uses encryption (or how to obtain an ERN)
Disclaimer: this article is now obsolete as the rules have changed, please don’t waste your time reading it. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. There’s a lot of conflicting information out there about whether you need an ERN or not to publish an app in the App Store. I spoke…
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Free-form version 0.2.0 released
We are very happy to announce version 0.2.0 of our form building library Free-form. This version includes: Started Bootstrap 3 support. Change API from :free-form/field to :free-form/input . Created example app to help test, exercise and develop the library: http://free-form-examples.carouselapps.com The Bootstrap 3 support means that you can have whole fields defined as succinctly as: [:free-form/field {:type…
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Prerenderer 0.2.0 released
We are proud to announce the release of version 0.2.0 of our ClojureScript library Prerenderer, a library to do server side pre-rendering of single page applications. In this release, we include: Changed the ClojureScript API to hide NodeJS details. New re-frame implementation that depends on re-frame 0.6.0 but not on a fork. Added an option…
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Review of Clojure Exchange 2015 London
I recently attended Clojure Exchange 2015 London, the conference organized by Skills Matter for Clojurians. Like many other attendees I was impressed by the quality of the talks and as a presenter, I was particularly pleased that only a few hours later my presentation, What is a Macro?, was already published, in video form, for everybody…
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A browser in your screensaver is a square peg in a round hole
This blog post was originally published in Screensaver Ninja‘s blog. We were recently challenged by someone who asked what was so special about adding websites into a screensaver. Perhaps, at first, this doesn’t seem like a tough task but after months of challenging work, I can confirm it is. I realized I never shared exactly…
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Tour of the Source Code of Ninja Tools
Screencast of a tour of the source code of our research project, Ninja Tools, a single page application developed in Clojure and ClojureScript.