I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
― Alan Kay, 2005
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
HowTo build a webapp: Document the domain model
In the previous article we did define a vision and the key features for a MVP of our app. Now we will discover the domain of our app and get a model of it. Such a domain model is a conceptual model of the entities and their relationships relevant for you app. Why you should […]
HowTo build a WebApp: Define what the app will do
This is the second part of this Tutorial series. The first article can be found here: How to build a WebApp: Strategic Planning If you are familiar with agile methodologies you may want to avoid a lot of documentation. In general I think this is a good approach. But it does not mean, that you […]
HowTo build a WebApp: Strategic Planning
Intro Hi and welcome to the first article in this series. I will cover the whole process of building a modern Webapp. We will start with an initial planning (covered in this article) and finish with the public deployment of the app. I will rather focus on the development process than on implementation. There are […]