Practicalli Software Engineering Guides

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} I use Debian Linux as it provides a stable and low maintenance operating system, enabling me to focus on getting valuable tasks done.

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Code that executes correctly and provides only limited value to the business can still be a huge maintenance burden.

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} Templates are great way to learn how to assemble Clojure libraries into a working project and can save considerable time when creating new projects by providing common configuration, development tools, depend…

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} Deployment of a Clojure service is very simple, requiring only an Uberjar (archive file containing the Clojure Project and Clojure run-time) and the Java Run-time Environment (JRE).

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} The London Clojurian community started in 2009 when Robert Rees tricked Bruce Durling into organsing monthly events.

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} Clojure development benefits from great tooling focused around an editor.

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} Practicalli uses Cryogen static site generator for its blog website.

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} The holiday season is know for over indulge, so why not stuff your head full of Clojure and functional programming.

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} The :globe_with_meridians: FreeDesktop.org XDG basedir standard{target=_blank} defines specific locations to store all user configuration, data files and caches.

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} :fontawesome-brands-github: Cognitect Labs AWS API{target=_blank} is an excellent data driven Clojure library for interacting with AWS from code.

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} Enlive{target=_blank} is a Clojure library that can be used for generating dynamic server-side content as well as scraping websites.

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} Emacs provides a huge amount of features via packages.

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} Git Commit Spoofing is where a person uses the Git identity of another person to modify commits pushed to GitHub, assuming they can obtain write permission to a branch or via a PR.

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} Exposing a local running services can be valuable when writing apps and web-hooks for Cloud API products, e.g.

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} Docker enables a consistent approach to building and running Clojure projects along with a range of other services locally (database, cache, streams, etc.), The Clojure project is built from source when start…

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} Advent of Code is the annual coding challenge with a festive theme.

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} Emacs 29 is the current stable release, adding major features: Eglot LSP client, Tree-Sitter language parser and package.el package install from Git repositories.

{align=right loading=lazy style="width:240px"} Emacs 28.1 is a feature packed release and includes native compilation to significantly increase the speed of all Emacs software packages installed.