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Stuart Sierra's Clojure Development Workflow

Clojure development is nice and dynamic, but there are times when it's not as dynamic as you might like and then it can take time to restart your environment, get all your development utilities in place and get your application re-loaded so that you can continue to work on it from a known clean state.

Stuart Sierra has been working on improving this.

I came across his tools.namespace a while ago, and it's been very useful.

Stuart has been taking things further recently, coming up with an approach to designing applications that plays nicely with dynamic development and which allows very fast reloading of applications during development.

He's described this in a recent blog post, in his Clojure in the Large talk at Clojure/West, and in Relevance Podcast Episode 32.

I've produced an example project that uses Stuart's approach, and I describe that here.

Simple Directory Navigation for Emacs

When using Emacs I've always missed having a nice way to navigate around directory structures and display their contents. Dired comes close to what I want, but it's less than ideal.

I've added a few commands and key bindings that make it easy to do what I want. You can find them in my Emacs initialisation code, specifically at Nomis Dired Explorer.

This blog is being moved. There is prettier version of this article at http://blogish.nomistech.com/clojure/clojure-symbols-vs-lisp-symbols/.

Symbols and Namespaces in Clojure and Common Lisp

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of articles documenting my experiences while learning Clojure. I've been playing with Clojure for a couple of years, but I've struggled to find the time to do more than just scratch the surface. At last I have some time to get into Clojure more deeply.

I have a background in Common Lisp, so I expect to spend a fair amount of my time grappling with the differences between Clojure and Common Lisp. As a start on that, this article discusses an area in which Clojure and Common Lisp differ at a fundamental level—symbols and namespaces.