Programming

Using Guile for general-purpose scripting - in this case, preparing some CSV files for import into GnuCash.

Implementing a simple web crawler in Racket.

Deploying a simple go web service to Mythic Beasts hosting.

The aws-api library from Cognitect provides programmatic access to AWS resources from Clojure.

At this month's meetup of Cambridge Gophers, Firat Nur gave us an excellent introduction to writing concurrent programs with Go.

This tutorial was written for a Cambridge Gophers Meetup.

Every now and then you'll find yourself writing a script with a step that does not always work first time: perhaps a remote service is temporarily down, or a DNS lookup fails intermittently.

Aero is a small configuration library from JUXT that extends Clojure's EDN reader with support for tags to interpolate values from environment variables, coerce these values to a specific type, use simple conditionals, and several other useful features.

This is the fourth instalment of our Think Stats study group; we are working through Allen Downey’s Think Stats, implementing everything in Clojure.

One of the user stories I had to tackle in a recent sprint was to import data maintained by a non-technical colleague in a Google Spreadsheet into our analytics database.