So there’s been a while since I last dabbled in Clojure and a lot has happened.... Read More

In addition to the FRED stuff we downloaded and parsed in the prior tutorial we now need the commodities too, they can be found on the USGS homepage.... Read More

That damn Leiningen et al breaks with the past all the time, the docs at the page of the run plugin are already out of date.... Read More

It’s time to start saving the data we downloaded in the prior part in a MySQL database.... Read More

I’ve just got it into my head that I want to do some economical research and set out to find a big set of data, which I quickly did in the form of the St Lous FED’s FRED API/service.... Read More

I’m currently working on a project where I use MongoDB and Clojure to create an API only type of service. Other sites of ours are connecting to this service, these sites are all made with PHP at the moment.... Read More

I just found a great write up on how to upload files by Nikola Plejić. It’s a little bit sparse though so below I’ll revisit it with my own additions.... Read More

In the prior part I stated that I would look into autocompletion and documentation lookup/jumping and that’s exactly what I’ve done and I’m happy with the results.... Read More

The code here is actually several months old, it was only today that I stumbled on it and realized it would be a nice writeup.... Read More

So here’s ye old car example. Pretend we have a class Car in (insert your favourite OO language here), then we extend the car class with Sportscar and Pickup, the door-count method of the Car class will return “I have four doors” and the car-description method is overridden in the two extending classes.... Read More