Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality.
― Alan Kay
Clojure music event: Audible side effects
On March 1st, 2020 the “Audible Side Effects” will come to town! This is an event I am organising as a satellite event to the :clojureD conference. We will use Clojure to work on any kind of music or sound project. This could be sound design and synthesis, algorithmic composition or whatever else comes to […]
EuroClojure 2017 talk: Intro to Probabilistic Programming and Clojure’s Anglican
At this year’s EuroClojure I gave a talk about probabilistic programming with Clojure, using the Anglican probabilistic programming system. Abstract: Probabilistic Programming Systems aim to merge general purpose programming with probabilistic modelling. They provide powerful statistical inference and thus allow developers to focus on the modelling with tools and environments they are comfortable with. These […]
Interview with PurelyFunctional.tv: Intro to Probabilistic Programming and Clojure’s Anglican
I was interviewed by PurelyFuntional.tv about my upcoming talk Intro to Probabilistic Programming and Clojure’s Anglican at EuroClojure 2017. You can find the full interview here: Nils Blum-Oeste EuroClojure 2017 Interview
Podcast recommendation: “The technological forces that are shaping our world”
The Art of Manliness podcast (I know, just try to ignore the name, I don’t like it either) has this great episode with Kevin Kelly (Wired, Whole Earth Catalogue) about the next big things in tech. Check it out: The Art of Manliness: #267: The Technological Forces That Are Shaping Our World
JavaFX with Style: Using Clojure, fn-fx and garden for desktop application design
Here is a quick introduction to style your Clojure JavaFX application via CSS using the garden library. Intro I am still working on a desktop application built with Clojure and fn-fx and I am making good progress, pretty happy with it so far. When I gave a talk about it at the Clojure meetup Berlin, […]
Podcast Recommendation: Moving from the Cloud to the Edge
The cloud might not be a sustainable model for handling computation in massive IoT scenarios. Instead lots of the data processing might need to be done close to the devices. Resources, efficiency and latency are reasons where such a system “on the edge” might be beneficial or even a hard requirement. A very interesting topic! […]
Building declarative GUIs with Clojure, JavaFX and fn-fx (Clojure Berlin Meetup talk)
A few days ago I gave a talk at the Clojure Meetup Berlin about building GUIs with Clojure and JavaFX. Here is the abstract: Building declarative GUIs with Clojure, JavaFX and fn-fx (Dr. Nils Blum-Oeste) JavaFX is the current standard GUI framework included in most Java distributions and the successor to Swing. It is readily […]
:clojureD: Just a few more days of waiting
The :clojureD conference is approaching quickly: February 25, 2017 in Berlin, yes that is only about two weeks away! I am really looking forward to it and hope to meet you there. We have a quite interesting mix of talks I would say. Among my favourites are “Powerful Data Access in Clojure” by Yannick Scherer, […]
Functional GUI programming with Clojure and JavaFX: Meet halgari/fn-fx
As stated in a previous post I am in the process of building a GUI application and I would like to use Clojure for that. In this post I would like to write about my experiences building a small app for evaluation of the halgari/fn-fx Clojure library that aims at building GUIs with JavaFX in […]
Desktop GUIs with Clojure in 2017: What are the options?
As I am in the process of developing an application for data analysis on chemical data the need for building a desktop GUI came up. Why desktop you ask? Excellent question! I think for this particular project, the combination of ease of use, data privacy and performance make it worth exploring an approach with a […]