Category Archives: clojure

Exploring LingPipe with Clojure & Cljr

By gavin | Published: September 11, 2010
Clojure’s REPL is already a great start when it comes to exploring new Java packages. In the past I’d throw together a disposable lein project with the unknown code and open a REPL and get exploring. But now I have a new tool in the toolbox that lets me skip this step. Cljr is more [...]
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Side by side: Python, Common Lisp, Clojure

By gavin | Published: November 25, 2009
UPDATE: Find the rest of the code at http://bitbucket.org/gavinmcgovern/clj-bayes/. My holiday project (of the sort that doesn’t involve cooking at least) is porting the Bayesian spam code from Peter Seibel’s great book “Practical Common Lisp” to Clojure. This will be a big part of the next-gen Big In Twitter that’s slowly coming together. Although I’ve been [...]
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Cascading’s Logparser example in Clojure

By gavin | Published: July 2, 2009
I’ve long been interested in working with Cascading but didn’t relish the thought of jumping back into Java. Thankfully with the arrival of Clojure I can now happily play in my less-typing world. I wanted to get a basic Cascading demo running so I took the Logparser example from the distribution and ported it over to [...]
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Another reason I like Clojure

By gavin | Published: June 25, 2009
Exploring new packages of code, say the latest jar from Echo Nest, is incredibly easy and just plain fun. For instance: (import '(com.echonest.api.v3.artist Artist ArtistAPI DocumentList)) (def artist-api (new ArtistAPI "YOUR DEV KEY HERE")) (def hot-artists (. artist-api getTopHotttArtists 10)) (println (.. (first hot-artists) getItem getName)) Will spit out “Papercuts” (as of the time of this writing), the current #1 [...]
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