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Clojure Conj Keynote and Day 3

Clojure Conj Keynote and Day 3

Now that I have (somewhat) recovered from the 2011 Clojure Conj, I can finish up my reflections. Starting with Rich’s keynote (which was on Day 2, but I didn’t have time to respond to then), as I said earlier it was more of a technical talk than the philosophical keynotes […]

Clojure Conj, day 2

Clojure Conj, day 2

Ok, so after 3 days of agile training followed by two full days of Clojure Conj, I am a bit ready for a rest.  Too much coffee and convention food can make my stomach feel a tad off. Anyway, yesterday started off ominously enough, with a Veterans Day parade shutting down a […]

Clojure Conj Day 1 Wins and Losses

Clojure Conj Day 1 Wins and Losses

So a quick recap of the good and bad during the first day of the 2011 Clojure Conj. Lets start with the good: A fantastic talk by Arnoldo Muller-Molina on using Clojure in some very interesting bioinformatics problems. Two very interesting talks on logic programming, one by Ambrose on Clojure’s core.logic, […]