A Lazy Sequence

19 Oct

Backbone

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.
12 Dec

Ring 1.0.0 Released

Clojure's Ring, the HTTP abstraction and associated libraries, has reached 1.0.0. Great work by Mark McGranaghan, James Reeves, and the other contributors.
01 Feb

Forever

Mandy Brown writes about the permanence and longevity of digital content. Via Simple Bits.
11 Jan

Matt Gemmell on the blog comments.


Matt Gemmell recently kicked the discussion around blog comments back to life, first by disabling comments on his own site and then by posting a short followup piece. He has now compiled a comprehensive set of the responses to his initial post. The cloud of discussion around this issue has generated a broad range of points of view that are worth the time to read.

I discarded comments here on A Lazy Sequence back in 2009 and have no regrets. I have found that Twitter, Hacker News, and Reddit provide much better forums for discussing articles I have posted than I could have provided here.

07 Feb

Revised Font Stack

A well considered article about CSS font stacks to work with fonts available on both Windows and Mac.
12 Jan

ClojureScript One

Clojure/core have released a guide and sample project for producing web applications based on Clojure and ClojureScript. As a bonus the project is an excellent example of using Marginalia for documentation.
10 Nov

App Settings

Brian Rosner on settings for reusable apps in django
03 May

A Closer Look at Font Rendering.

A good indepth article about the implications of various font rendering systems across multiple OSes and the impact of different font formats with respect to webfonts. Via Tim Kelleher.
19 Oct

Gridulator

A tool for calculating pixel grid for any width.
24 Sep

When Ajax Attacks!

Slides for Simon Willison's web application security presentation
03 Nov

SQL Korma.

Korma is a new Clojure library for SQL from Chris Granger, who is also responsible for the popular Noir web framework. Korma looks very promising; it is a very simple, direct mapping of SQL syntax into composable primatives. In contrast to ClojureQL which is a Relational Algebra to SQL compiler, Korma looks like it should result in less surprising SQL generation.
28 Sep

Browser Market Pollution

Paul Irish writes about the increasing problems facing web developers hoping to support Internet Explorer. This is one depressing read.
15 May

Emacs WebDev Environment

Instructions for setting up an (X)HTML editing environment for Emacs suitable for Web Developers.
12 Nov

TITO

A fun little web based musical toy. Requires flash.
27 Feb

Nathan on 'No comments?'

Nathan makes some good observations about the social effects of not having blog comments.
24 Feb

Brioche

Matt responds to my better blog post, and considers his audience and the purpose of his blog.
02 Oct

Using JavaScript libraries in ClojureScript

A detailed article by Luke VanderHart on the various mechanisms in ClojureScript and Google Closure for using external javascript libraries in your ClojureScript projects.
19 Apr

Ceaser

A tool for experimenting with and creating CSS easings for transition animations.
21 Sep

repl.it

Interative REPLs for a variety of languages (16 all up) in your web browser. Includes Javascript.next, Python, Scheme, Forth. Via Chris Lappe.
16 Apr

Three Small Javascript Libraries

Oliver Steele presents three little Javascript libraries that provide a lot of power. Worth a look just for picking up ideas at least
23 Jan

MetaWeblog API with Clojure

I've added a recipe for implementing a basic MetaWeblog server endpoint in Clojure to the necessary-evil github wiki. It's bare bones and uses a dummy store that does the bare minimum. Because so much of the detail of MetaWeblog is dependant on the backend and model you use, it's not much more than the public interface.
29 Aug

jParallax

A JQuery based script to create parallax viewports that shift with the mouse position. Via Patrick Thomson
29 Sep

django-robots

An app to make maintaining a robots.txt easy from django
30 Mar

moustache

Christophe Grand's Moustache micro web framework for Clojure