Jennifer Smith
Jen is a Software Developer for ThoughtWorks based in London, UK and one of the London Clojurian organisers and speakers.
Talks I've Given
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The Internet of Strings: Getting smarter about Web Integration
Featuring Jennifer Smith
We build increasingly sophisticated architectures and web applications but rely on HTTP and the humble string to hold them together. We apply widely understood data formats (XML, JSON) to our requests and responses so both sides understand structure but how does each party declare its...
software-development -
Common Clojure Smells: A Field Guide
Featuring Jennifer Smith
Code smells in other languages like Java are well understood and documented but what about Clojure? Does the language make all these problems and smells go away? For many of us starting to write our first production Lisp, the territory is unfamiliar and smells are not immediately apparent. In...
technique -
Regexes Through The Looking Glass
Featuring Jennifer Smith
In this talk Jennifer explains how she attempted to write a simplistic regex parser using instaparse https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse and finite domain logic.
lisp database regex json xml edn php javascript python .net ruby html clojure -
Interop Glue
Featuring Jennifer Smith
This talk discusses some of the finer points of clojure interop and the techniques you can use to lessen the impedance mismatch between functional code and crufty APIs.
clojure interop -
Introduction to test.generative
Featuring Jennifer Smith
Jennifer Smith gives brief demo of test.generative and talks about why she thinks it's an interesting and innovative way to think about verifying code correctness.
clojure
