Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
― Albert Einstein
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 […]
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 […]
Generative Art with Clojure via Quil and Processing
Recently I got some interest in generative “art”. Without going into what qualifies as art and what not, here are some of the things I created: The code generating these images is available on github over here. Try them live, as a couple of these images are from actual animations. Pretty easy and fun to […]
Microservices, Music and More @ Futurice Beer&Tech
A few weeks ago Christoph and I gave an introduction to MicroServices at Futurice‘s Beer&Tech sessions in Berlin. The idea was to collect our impressions from the DevOps conference 2015 in Berlin. I think we covered a lot of ground here from business value to technology and some simple live examples. The tools we introduced […]
ClojureBridge Berlin and Clojure learning groups
Recently I had the chance to be a coach at ClojureBridge Berlin. You might not have heard about this event before, but maybe you know RailsBridge. ClojureBridge’s mission is: ClojureBridge aims to increase diversity within the Clojure community by offering free, beginner-friendly Clojure programming workshops for women. Of course I did not hesitate to volunteer […]
Mundane Clojure for Mortals: Building a simple Web API
A while ago I did a small introduction to building a simple REST API with Clojure from scratch at Futurice in Berlin. While preparing that, I did create a small tutorial and demo project to follow along (GitHub, Tutorial). The presentation was recorded on video and you can check it out right now, right here: […]
MS-KOS: A Micro Services Playground using Docker, Consul and Prometheus
As a demo for a talk my colleague Christoph and I gave at Futurice, also visited by students from HPI, I put together a small playground for creating and managing Micro Services. It’s work in progress, but usable already and might be a good starting point if you would like to try out your own […]
Sorting out projects – Starting new ones
Who doesn’t know about having too many projects at hand? Guess I am not different, probably rather on the more excessive side of things here. Having finished my PhD and getting some personal issues sorted out, I feel having capacity and the drive to get my hands dirty again. Among the things I already started […]