Conj 2015 notes + links

conj15.md

clojure/conj 2015 notes

All of the talks are on YouTube. Conj 2015 on Lanyrd.

Clojure

State machines for Clojure

• automat - library defining automata
• loco - constraint programming library
• demos from presentation

Condition systems

• Common Lisp Restarts
• Resources and code from Chouser's talk
• A Syntactic Theory of Dynamic Binding (pdf)
• swell CL style restarts in Clojure
• Last chapter of "The Joy of Clojure" goes into more detail (using dynamic vars for exceptions)

Spark for Clojure

• A presentation on Spark by the Sparkling author

ClojureScript

• JVM-less cljs

Basic ideas of Om-Next:

"The Bleeding edge of UI development."

• single atom apps: good
• over flushing: bad
• visible async: bad
• visible event model: bad

Om-Next borrows heavily from Netflix's Falcor and Facebook's Relay. Query requests look identical as in Datomic's pull method. TodoMVC implementation in Om-Next.

Good starting point for cljs internals:

• hello-cljsc

Cool projects to check out:

• transit data exchange format for cljs -> clj.

Non-Clojure specific stuff

Genetic programming

• MagicHaskeller - inductive functional programming for Haskell
• Push - language for evolutionary computing (there's an implementation in Clojure, too)
• Conj 2014 talk about language evolution

Amazon Lambda

Demo with "serverless" app that runs on Amazon's Lambda + API Gateway + Cognito.

Running dev tools in Docker

• Code from presentation
• xpra: Screen for X11

Deep Specifications

• Property-Based Testig of a Distributed Sync Service (pdf)

Lightning Talks

• defsql: jdbc wrapper with compile-time argument checks
• vdom:Elm architecture model in cljs. Wraps virtual-dom lib
• clj-tosca generator for TOSCA documents in Clojure