The slides and code for my first presentation at cf.Objective() 2013 are now online - Polyglot Lessons to Improve Your CFML: Learn You a What for Great Good slides (PDF) Learn You a What for Great Good code (Github) The other presentations will be poste[...]

Since the start of the year there’s been an F# meetup every 2 weeks in London at Skills Matter, in the middle of the month we do a hands session and at the end a talk or two. There’s always a good turnout and the group now has over 500 members. Want to g[...]

A month ago I posted that java.jdbc 0.3.0 alpha 1 was available for testing and since then I've made a few more alpha releases as the API and code settles down so I figured it was time to blog about the recent changes. Release 0.3.0-alpha4 on 2013-05-11 [...]

Other than noting back in January that all three(!) of my talk proposals were accepted, I haven't blogged about them since, so the only information about them is on the cf.Objective() web site. The session overviews give a fair sense of what you should ge[...]

We've recently started evaluating the New Relic monitoring service at World Singles and when you use their Java agent with your web application container, you can get a lot of information about what's going on inside your application (JVM activity, databa[...]

A question was recently asked on the Clojure Users group on LinkedIn about reasons to migrate to Clojure for enterprise applications in a Java shop. It's a fairly typical question from people in the Java world when they hear the buzz about Clojure, and of[...]

clojure.java.jdbc 0.2.3 was released in June 2012 and represented the culmination of a lot of maintenance and minor enhancements since I took over the old clojure.contrib.sql project from Stephen C. Gilardi, in order to get it running with Clojure 1.3.0 a[...]

To make it easier to manage collaboration on FW/1-related projects in future, several projects have now moved under a new FW/1 - Framework One - organization on Github. Your forks and watches should have been updated but if you have local clones of the ol[...]

Towards generic programming in F#: thoughts on generalizing the earlier combinators over records and unions... I wrote earlier a little post on combinators over records and unions. This approach in F# is still very attractive to me for defining various[...]

CongoMongo (on Github) has just received a small update today, adding a few more advanced features: read preference supported (per-connection, per-collection, per-fetch) - Niclas Meier add-index! supports :background true/false - dwwoelfel namespaced key[...]