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defn

The world's greatest vegetarian Clojure podcast. Support us on https://patreon.com/defn  Hosted by Josh Glover and Ray McDermott

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Episodes

#15 EuroClojure 2016 Interviews (Part 2 of 2)

At EuroClojure 2016, we had the pleasure of talking with these fine folks: Malcolm "Yada" Sparks Dragan "The GPU Tamer" Djuric David "The CLojureScript Guy" Nolen

Dec 11, 20161 hr

#14 - Euroclojure 2016 Interviews (Part 1)

At EuroClojure 2016, we had the pleasure of talking with these fine folks: Colin "The Cursive" Fleming Jon "The JUXT" Pither Srihari "The Carnatic" Sriraman Carin "The Healer" Meier

Dec 07, 201650 min

#12 - EuroClojure Preview

We talk about the talks in a meta-tastic preview of the upcoming EuroClojure conference in Bratislava, Slovakia More notes at http://defn.audio

Oct 20, 201650 min

#11 - Alex Miller

We interview the famously energetic and prolific ambassador for Clojure, Mr Alex Miller Please check the web site for the show notes: https://defn.audio

Oct 06, 20161 hr 16 min

#10 - Spec.ial

A discussion about spec For detailed information and links, see the show notes at https://defn.audio/2016/09/21/episode-10-spec-ial/

Sep 21, 20161 hr 2 min

#9 - Onyx with Mike and Lucas

Summary: A fun, loooong episode to discuss the awesome Onyx with Mike Drogalis and Lucas Bradstreet Show notes at https://defn.audio/2016/09/06/episode-9-onyx-with-mike-and-lucas/ Credits: Guests: Thanks to Mike and Lucas for the great conversation and all of the lovely software. Music: Thanks to the very talented ptzery for the permitting us to use his music on the opening and closing of the podcast. This track is Melon Hamburger. You can give his work some ❤️ and hear more on his SoundCloud ht...

Sep 06, 20161 hr 30 min

#8 - Discussion: scaling with Clojure

News & Events https://juxt.pro/XT16.html - 6th October, 2016 Defn will be at Euroclojure - October 25/26 EuroClojure talks - David Nolen, Carin Meier etc. https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/7430-clojure-exchange-2016 Onyx got funding re-frame a new version Ambrose IndieGoGo : https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/typed-clojure-clojure-spec-auto-annotations#/ Main discussion - Clojure at Scale OOP has design patterns UML etc. OOAD Scaling - two thingies: Static vs. Dynamic Functional Programmi...

Aug 22, 20161 hr 12 min

#7 - Datomic with Robert Stuttaford

A roving tour of Datomic with the pioneering Mr Stuttaford. For detailed show notes please check the web site https://defn.audio/2016/08/10/episode-7-datomic-with-robert-stuttaford/

Aug 10, 20161 hr 9 min

#6 - Concurrency and Parallelism

A rambling discussion struggling to come to terms with concurrency and parallelism See the show notes at defn.audio https://defn.audio/2016/07/25/episode-6-concurrency-and-parallelism/

Jul 25, 20161 hr 2 min

#5 - Hoplon Special with Micha Niskin

*Follow up* We retain our status as the top vegetarian Clojure podcast. Phew. Maria Geller’s video - in which she did a great job of explaining how the CLJS compiler works and provides some interface to the contribution process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elg17s_nwDg *News* Euro Clojure - Bratislava tickets are on sale. Defn will be there *Main discussion - ClojureScript UI - Hoplon Special* http://hoplon.io Welcome to Micha Niskin - co-author of the awesome Hoplon library collection Potted...

Jul 13, 20161 hr 29 min

#4 - Immutable Persistent Collections

Overview of Persistent Collections - Intro | Follow-up | News - Discussion on community relations - Immutable Persistent Collections List vs Vector - Linked list vs tree implementation Map vs Set - Key can be anything - KV | Unique KV - Relational operations on set are outside of core Seq library - ISeq (first, rest, cons) - Interop with Java utterable - Functions are written to work against the Seq interface - Seq in, Seq out Immutability and Persistence - What is it? - Why is it important? - I...

Jun 27, 20161 hr 11 min

#2 - The Reader

Defn Episode #02 - The Reader [ a little news: spec ] The wonders of the Reader - Compare to the C pre-processor - How it underpins the language - Reader forms - EDN / Transit - Tagged literals - Reader Conditionals (1.7+) - clojure.tools.reader - Finally, why no user defined reader macros (as in Common Lisp and Scheme)? References The Data-Reader's Guide to the Galaxy (Clojure West, 2013) by Steve Miner Spyscope by David Greenberg More information and links at the DEFN website https://defn.audi...

May 30, 201654 min

#1 - Hello World

Launch episode explaining our motivations for being Clojure and ClojureScipt enthusiasts.

May 17, 201651 min
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