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Passing around components with reagent and Semantic UI

I've been happily using Semantic UI React since I first wrote about it more than a year ago. Everything in the previous post still holds true, the only thing that has changed is the version number of the semantic-ui-react package.

The CLJSJS community...

  • 11 min read

Demystifying Datomic 'Two datoms in the same transaction conflict' errors

I love Datomic, absolutely love it. I simply can't imagine a world without it anymore. I can now relate to how the NoSQL crowd felt a decade ago when they were unshackled from relational databases, except this time I feel the technology has really...

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Using semantic-ui-react with re-frame

One of the great things about ClojureScript is the fantastic interop story with the JavaScript ecosystem. That said, taming JavaScript is a bit of an art that takes some practice.

I've integrated plain Semantic-UI with a re-frame project before and...

  • 7 min read

Bringing order with Clojure's sort-by

It is unavoidable, really.

Any data eventually needs to be sorted for presentation. Most of the times we’re very lucky and we could lean on the implicit order of data returned from the database, or we can decorate that HTML table with DataTables and...

  • 8 min read

The JVM is not that heavy

Mostly my opposition to Clojure is the JVM. That sh*t is heavy.

This came up in the ZA Tech Slack team several weeks ago. While watching some Clojure talks over the holidays the speakers also noted this objection over and over again.

I had a bit...

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Smooth client-side routing in a figwheel-only project

One of the few things I missed when starting with re-frame was the excellent client-side routing setup you get with ember-cli, especially the development server part of that.

After some digging I found this fantastic article, No-hashes bidirectional...

  • 15 min read

Error reporting, and building hoverboards

October 21st came and went. We still don’t have hoverboards. But all is not lost! We can still embrace hoverboards, at least as a metaphor for having a frictionless software development lifecycle.

The hoverboard metaphor came to be as I presented...

  • 6 min read

Creating an ember-cli addon

I've been using Ember.js for about 15 months at this stage, and I've absolutely loved it. My first Ember project started before ember-cli existed, my second one I built on ember-cli 0.0.17 and up, sometimes spending more time upgrading ember-cli than...

  • 10 min read

Reflecting on Rubyfuza 2015

Rubyfuza 2015 was amazing. Just like all the other years, this one stood out on all levels. I love referring to Rubyfuza as a massive family reunion, except that everyone is excited to see each other. I have a lot of Ruby friends, that I only get to...

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Heroku Cookbook by Mike Coutermarsh

tl;dr - Get a copy of the excellent Heroku Cookbook by Mike Coutermarsh and learn a few tricks about getting the most from your Rails/Rack applications on Heroku

I've been a closet fan of Heroku for years now, always being envious of developers...