In yesterday's blog post, Rebooting Clojure, I talked about our switch from Leiningen to Boot but, as Sven Richter observed in the comments, I only gave general reasons why we preferred Boot, without a list of pros and cons.
We switched from Leiningen to Boot. What is Boot and why did we switch?Leiningen
I did not intend to stop blogging in 2015 but that's certainly what it looks like here!So what kept me so busy that I didn't get around to blogging anything?
I've often said that I try to follow The Pragmatic Programmer's advice to learn a new language every year.
Last week I attended The Strange Loop in St Louis.
This was originally posted on corfield.
The first annual Powered by JavaScript conference, organized by Manning Books, took place in St Louis this past week.
Adapted from a post I made on my old blog in January, 2014, about the first few workshops being planned.
Originally posted on Google Plus on June 14th, 2014.Why Java 8 might win me back...
Sometimes it's very enlightening to look back at the beginning of a project to see how things got set up and how we started down the path that led to where we are today.
This was my second time at The Strange Loop.
We've recently started evaluating the New Relic monitoring service at World Singles and when you use their Java agent with your web application container, you can get a lot of information about what's going on inside your application (JVM activity, database activity, external HTTP calls, web transac...
