Clojurians Log v2

ok well i was thinking of doing a project for our next Clojure Workshop that.. is different than web and compojure… so was thinking of something different to do

@clojuregeek Sounds great. I’m not sure if what I said was useful, but I have some (non-comprehensive) knowledge of those features. Happy to try to help.

I’m not sure what the group’s policy is around finding speakers, but I’ve been playing around with writing Alexa skills in ClojureScript lately. It might make a good talk if people are interested.

I was reading Programming Clojure 3rd ed… and it talked about currency model, with dosync, vas… and I was like hmm… wonder if I can do a project with this

i have used atoms before

oh we would love to have a talk on Alexa and clojurescript! … get with @norman .. he organizes the talks 🙂

@clojuregeek Rich’s ant sim (https://gist.github.com/spacemanaki/1093917) is an impressive demo of refs. Worth a look if you haven’t seen it.

oh cool .. i’ll take a look, thanks

I got some code to do for a ‘code challenge’ and it has macros, vars, dosync and other stuff I have not done yet

@clojuregeek Sounds… challenging. 😜 Post up if you get stuck! I’m sure we can all sort it out.

well i probably can’t post it .. its for Via sat

I’m probably not smart enough to work with Chouser and them guys

It’s a high bar. 🙂 I know the feeling.

where do you work @camdez

@clojuregeek I have a little fintech startup called CollBox. We’re based out of Capital Factory, 15 floors up from the meetup the other day.

cool, do you use Clojure?

@clojuregeek All Clojure everything. ClojureScript (re-frame) / EDN / Clojure / Datomic, running on AWS.

oh cool then… so you may be the first company i know of in Austin who does clojure 🙂

hey @norman.. we got a clojure company in Austin 🙂

Wow, seriously? That’s concerning. haha.

I know some Apple engineers here in Austin who write Clojure.

Seranova has some people here in Austin but most (all?) clojure devs are in Canada

they tried to hire me earlier this year

Well, I’m trying to do my part spreading the good word. And we will be hiring in a month or two, FWIW.

ok cool, keep me posted on hiring .. if not for me, i may know ppl looking

Great. I absolutely will.

Awesome. If the Meetup can help you guys with anything just ask

yeah Norman has offered free training to businesses on clojure 🙂

right Norman?

Yeah - whatever I can do to support a team getting going.

Either myself, or someone else in the group

It sounds like you already have a project/team up and running and have likely hit most of the new clojure project problems already

@norman Yeah, if you’re talking about me, I’ve had a production Clojure web app running for the better part of two years and have several hundred customers, so I’m definitely past the basics. But I’m always game for chats about best practices. I’ve had to figure out a lot of things on my own and there are parts I know could be a lot better.

There’s always lessons to be learned from how other projects do things.