The central enemy of reliability is complexity.
― Geer et al., 2003
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
letfn drilldown: A Clojure special form in detail
Motivation A short discussion on the #clojure-berlin channel (Clojurians on Slack) got me interested in the letfn special form of clojure.core. The question was raised if the docstring of letfn describes it well. Wether it is, or not, I got interested in how it works and more specifically why it’s syntax is different from let […]
Image analysis with Clojure and OpenCV: A face detection example
I recently got not only interested in Clojure but also want to utilize it for some image analysis now. OpenCV is a very solid package for image and video analysis. Java bindings have been released for OpenCV at the beginning of 2013. Unfortunately it wasn’t as easy as I expected in the first place to […]