Clojure is a dynamic, functional programming language that is a joy to write. I’ve been writing it professionally for the last year-and-a-half and wanted to share something I wish existed when I first got started. This guide is not a primer on Clojure itself. I will not be going over…

Performance should be a first-class citizen of every modern application. There are plenty of reasons to justify putting performance at the forefront of your application, and this blog post isn’t about that. This post is meant to discuss a high-level concept that allows you to gain massive speed improvements and…

A few months ago, I was introduced to a new way to write JavaScript. It’s name was Elm and its promise is to Generate JavaScript with great performance and no runtime exceptions. I was particularly intrigued by the latter part of the promise which prompted me to dip my toe…

Most users of POSIX based systems have most likely heard of or use the grep command regularly. For those who don’t know, grep is a method of searching an input file for a match of one or more patterns. …

As Software Developers, we like to have the tools we use configured just the right way. This creates an issue, however, when you have to configure your development environment again in the future for any reason. “Uurgh, what was that git alias for nice logs again?” and “why don’t I…

Last week Thursday, carwow hosted a dojo for the Elixir community to eat, drink and get down and dirty with the language. The challenge for this first dojo was to build a parser for poker hands (of the Texas Hold’em variety). …

Like many developers in the Ruby community, and around half of the developers at carwow, I use and love Vim. There are a lot of different reasons why people use and love Vim, mine is that it synergises with my philosophy that text editors should primarily focus on increasing productivity…

Being a Humble Developer Thoughts on mentoring and helping others (by another developer trying to figure things out). “The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks…