[clojure] posts

I strongly believe that ignorance is one of the most powerful tools we should employ when we build software. As a mechanism to enforce de-coupling it is great. What?! Huh?! No, I haven't lost the plot (any more than usual), I simply mean that I strive to build small components that are as ignorant as possible. The opposite of ignorance is knowled ...

Another quick tip. I use the excellent cljsbuild to compile and test our ClojureScript projects (and I can't believe how difficult it is to wire this stuff together in 2016!). To support continuous integration I use phantomjs to provide the JavaScript environment. Unfortunat ...

If you aren't already using plumatic's schema then I strongly recommend you do. (when did they stop being 'Prismatic' and become 'Plumatic'? Oh well) The reason why will have to be another blog post, this is simply to say that is you are using both or either then you will get a bunch of deprecated ...

I need to write a much longer post to explain my thoughts on 'versioning' and what constitutes a release with today's trends of continuous integration, but for now, a simple tip. I wanted a way to distinguish each build, not each release but each build. There is one excellent source of truth for that which is your git repository. Wouldn't i ...

A hard day I learned the following lessons today:  Simplest is best Evaluate your assumptions Sometimes development is just hard...