The Den of Clojure

10 Clojure Coding Techniques You Should Know and Project Openbike

Jul 11, 2013 · 6:00 PM
Stoney's Full Steam Tavern

What are ten Clojure coding techniques that you wish everyone knew? Wes and Troy from TurboVote helped me come up with a great list of tips and techniques. This will be a practical topic with lots of room for debate. There typically isn't one "right way" to do things in Clojure, so we will discuss solving real world problems. Expect a high degree of audience interaction.

Networking starts at 6, technical presentation at 6:30.

Around 7:30 we'll check in on Surlybird and the status of Project Openbike.

Topics:

Threading macro

for (and all of its options)

going from let to destructuring

what goes in your docstrings?

repl tricks

clojure-test, with-redefs

get-in, assoc-in

Ruby symbols to Clojure keywords

require: prefix the ns or only pull in functions you need

code organization: util vs. support (orphan) namespaces

As always, food and drink sponsored by Cody Powell and our friends at Tek Systems

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Michael O.

Thanks for the great time all!

0 · July 18, 2013
Tom F.

Had to arrive late but had a great time hanging out with our close knit and accessible community. OpenBike.co is a truly inspired project

1 · July 12, 2013
A former member

Awesome! Unfortunately, most of it was over my head, but it was still very useful to see Clojure in action and talk to people who know it. Thanks!

0 · July 12, 2013
Tom F.

I will be coming later around 7:30 PM

0 · July 9, 2013
david c.

hope to make it

0 · July 8, 2013
Julien C.

Can't make it unfortunately. Busy with work deadlines.

0 · July 8, 2013