ClojureX Drinks

ClojureX Drinks at the Crown Tavern - to discuss and share some more Clojure topics!

The Language of the System

Featuring Rich Hickey

Most software systems are not single processes written in a single programming language. Instead, systems are composed of a suite of processes, often written by separate parties. Even when every process is written in the same language, there is another language present, emerging from the...

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Impromptu Rich Hickey Lightning Talk

Featuring Rich Hickey

A welcome surprise to proceeding as Rich Hickey gives a lightning talk before his closing keynote at the Clojure eXchange.

Building Musical Performance Systems in Clojure

Featuring Nick Rothwell

A presentation of some tools written in Clojure for making music software (conventional products like Ableton Live, or live coding environments like Overtone) more amenable to live performance.

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The Persistent Data Structure Menagerie

Featuring Philip Potter

This talk will go through every persistent data structure in clojure's core language, describe the implementation of each, and use examples to show the efficiency gains which are being made over naive copy-on-write immutable data structures.

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Building a Clojure Google+ Client Library

Featuring Ian Barber

Ian Barber will cover how Google has built a discoverable, flexible API system with the aim of making it easy to build powerful client libraries for each product that is added to the ecosystem.

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Playing Nice

Featuring David Humphreys

David James Humphreys will cover practical methods for introducing Clojure to your projects. Some tips and tricks for playing nice with other technologies to help introduce Clojure into your current and future projects.

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Reviving the uSwitch Back Office with Clojure

Featuring Ryan Greenhall

A revolution is underway at Uswitch, the UKs leading energy comparison website. We will share our experience of using Clojure to completely replace the existing monolithic back office system with an eco-system of smaller, focussed Clojure applications throughout 2012.

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API design with protocols – techniques, trade-offs

Featuring Meikel Brandmeyer

Protocols (and multimethods for that matter) are a means to define APIs which are open to extension to types not anticipated during development of the API providing library. However things are not as trivial as “just use it.” Careful consideration has to be done. This talk will provide some...

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ClojureScript all the way down

Featuring Bodil Stokke

Node.js is really hip these days. Of course, a barrier to adoption for any sensible programmer is the fact that while the opportunities it provides for network programming are shiny and brilliant, it expects you to write your code in Javascript, a language born with so many design flaws it makes...

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