In this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to Andrew Boekhoff , author of CongoMongo , a toolkit for using MongoDB with Clojure.
Satish>> Welcome Andrew and thanks for taking out time to share your thoughts. What programming languages have you used seriously?
Andrew>> Seriously: Ruby and Clojure. Less Seriously: C, C++, Java and now: Haskell, Scheme.
Satish>> Why and when did you decide to start working on Clojure?
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RubyLearning wrote to a lot of experts, gathering their best tips on Clojure. The tips are still coming in, but here are some to get you started with. Feel free to add your own tips in the comments section or send the same to satishtalim [at] gmail.com . Enjoy!
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It's hard to pin point a few good tips because Clojure can do so many things in very nice and ingenious ways, that it's not even funny. Anyway, here are a few:
- jaikoo: Starting from scratch
- Rails Inside: Screencast: How To Upgrade Your Rails 2 App to Rails 3 in 25 Minutes
- Tea-Driven Development: Cuke4Nuke - Cucumber for .NET
- High Scalability: Hot Holiday Scalability Links for 2009
- Guillaume Nargeot's Technical Blog: On solving Project Euler - Part 2
- Ruby Inside: MacRuby 0.5 Released: A Significant, Stable Release
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Many Rubyists today are talking about and exploring Clojure and I wanted to share a list of some popular posts on Clojure from RubyLearning. Enjoy!
And hopefully more to come...
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- Joe Fiorini: My Top CodeMash Sessions
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- Lance: Clojure User's Group in Atlanta
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: Groovy, Scala and Clojure - A Comparison
- How Software is Built: Jason van Zyl - Apache Maven
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In this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to Dmitry Lipovoi of Russia , winner of the tenth Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies .
Satish>> Welcome Dmitry and thanks for taking out time to share your thoughts. For the benefit of the readers, could you tell us something about your self?
Dmitry>> Hey. My name is Dmitry, and I've been programming since I was 14 years old, when I made my first "Hello World" in Pascal…
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In this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to Benoit Daloze of Belgium , winner of the ninth Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies .
Satish>> Welcome Benoit and thanks for taking out time to share your thoughts. For the benefit of the readers, could you tell us something about your self?
Benoit>> I would first like to thank RubyLearning for all they have done. I am a 19 year old student in first bachelor in computer sciences …
RPCFN is entirely financed by RubyLearning and sometimes sponsors, so if you enjoy solving Ruby problems and would like to give something back by helping with the running costs then any donations are gratefully received.
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to:
Sponsors Backup My App .
GitHub , for giving us access to a private repository on GitHub to store all the submitted solutions.
The RubyLearning team.
Questions?
Contact Satish Talim…
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