Thursday, May 14, 2009

Jazz Guitar & Cabernet Celebration



MinerBenedettoPostcrd2009.jpg


Jazz Guitar & Cabernet Celebration
Saturday, August 15, 2009, 8 pm at
Miner Family Winery
7850 Silverado Trail
Oakville, California 

Join us for an evening of fine wine and live jazz featuring "The Benedetto Players" -Featuring Bucky Pizzarelli, Howard Alden and Howard Paul in celebrating the release of the 2006 Miner Benedetto Signature Series Cabernet Sauvignon and Benedetto Guitars' 41th anniversary.

Follow the link for more info...

Monday, May 11, 2009

Clojure on the Google App Engine


http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2009/05/clojure-on-google-app-engine.html

So how easy is it to get Clojure going in the cloud? 

Looks pretty easy.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Use OpenSSL for Base64 encode and decode

This hint came in handy today...

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030721010526390

To decode from Base64:

openssl base64 -d -in <infile> -out <outfile>
Conversely, to encode to Base64:
openssl base64 -in <infile> -out <outfile>

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Clojure 1.0

Rich Hickey announces Clojure 1.0

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/1e661d16bd910ddd?hl=en#


 (dosync (alter congrats conj (System/getProperty "user.name")))

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Basic Clojure Setup - Part 1: Installing Clojure


http://yusupov.com/blog/2009/basic-clojure-setup-part-1/

These series of posts describe how I setup Clojure development environment on my system. Even though these instructions are geared towards Mac users, they should work for other Unix-like systems with small (if any) changes. I hope it saves some time to anyone new to Clojure.