Lesser known Clojure: letfn form

Sometimes it’s useful to declare functions for a local scope only. Typically this can be achieved by using let form. Let’s look at such example:

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Clojure: JSON request with http.async.client library

Lately I was writing Clojure code that needed to do the POST request to the external service. Additional requirement was that this request should use JSON as a format of a data in the body. I was using http.async.client library for doing my network communication. Because I couldn’t find any example of such request I’ve spent some time before I was done. To help you, I will post my solution.

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NDepend 6

Again I get from Patrick Smacchia an opportunity to test new version of NDepend - this time version 6. If you don’t know, NDepend is a tool that measure and present information about code metrics in your .Net code. It can run as standalone application, but also as Visual Studio plugin.

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DevDay 2015

September has come and as usual at this time of the year I went to Krakow (Poland), to attend DevDay. Since the last year, the conference changed a bit - it’s not a free one anymore (but the cost is very reasonable) and it takes two days now. Expect that changes everything else is the same - great sessions with superior service around them (lots of good food, free drinks, helpful crew).

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Starting with Emacs

It has been almost one year since I’ve started using Emacs. I think this is a good moment to give you some tips about starting using it. This isn’t typical tutorial, but rather the description of my approach to learning Emacs.

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