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Sometimes you want to make a user's experience feel more personal. An easy way to achieve this is by personalising text based content. For example in a text base adventure game you could replace placeholders in the text with information relevant to that particular player such as their name or class. This could help make your game more engaging.
Inconsistent case is a problems that tends to come up at application boundaries in your software stack. For example your Clojure codebase might use kebab-case for keywords, whilst your database uses snake_case for column names and your client wants camelCase in its json responses. Often, conventions and/or technical limitations prevent you from simply having a single case throughout your entire stack.
Checking for containment, whether a collection contains an item, is a common task in software development. This post covers the ways you can check for containment in Clojure.
Sorting collections of items is something that comes up frequently in software development. This post covers the multitude of ways you can sort things in Clojure.
The Lisp family of languages is relatively new to me. I learned both Clojure and Emacs Lisp at the same time, as Emacs is a popular Clojure editor. Learning these two lisps side by side has made me wonder about the subtle differences between the two, in particular how they approach passing functions as arguments to other functions (first class functions). It turns out this boils down to Clojure being a lisp-1 and Emacs Lisp a lisp-2.
We have two sequences of maps (tables) and we want to merge them on matching keys (relations).
We have a URL with some placeholder values that we want to replace.
Your business needs you to generate an automated email report containing data from your app. In this example we will use the SendGrid web API to email a .csv file.
Sometimes you need to validate phone numbers, googlei18n/libphonenumber is a Java library for doing just that (and more). Thanks to Clojure's great java interop using this library in your project is straightforward.
Juxt is one of those higher-order functions that you never knew you needed. Despite not using it that often I find it can still be surprisingly useful. Let's check out the docs.
