Written by Eric Normand. Published: December 27, 2013
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Two faces, weaving in jest, and channeling Clojure/Conj
Clojure Gazette
Issue 1.63 December 27, 2013
Editorial
Hello!
Sorry I missed a week! Lots of holiday preparations. But I'm back in full swing, now.
The Clojure/Conj, which I missed, is revived again in the form of Youtube videos—at a very fast pace! I am excited to get at least a bit of the sensation of "being there". I will have to make it next time!
Enjoy the issue!
Sincerely, Eric Normand <ericwnormand@gmail.com>
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I watched The Internet of Strings, a talk that was presented by Jennifer Smith at Clojure/Conj 2013. It was about the tenuous connections clients have with APIs. Janus is meant to mitigate the problem in a way that avoids the many, painful issues of WSDL. For one, it does not require a complete specification of the output data—only the parts of the data (one particular path in JSON, for instance) that one relies on. It also can be applied after-the-fact to existing services. It uses a data DSL to describe the assumptions and expectations a client has about a service. From the data structure, the library allows you to test if the service conforms to the spec and also generate a mock service. I'm going to give it a try for the APIs I maintain.
If you are programming in Clojure on the web, you are probably running code that he has written or maintains. Ring? Compojure? Hiccup? That's him. Known online as weavejester, he has a mammoth collection of useful libraries that are in production use all over. And he keeps coming out with more. Do follow him and say hi!
The Clojure/Conj 2013 Videos have begun appearing on the ClojureTV Youtube account. That account also has all previously available Clojure/Conj videos, as well as some very early talks.