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KKT Website

2010-02-07T00:00:00-08:00

I need to make KKT website work by Tuesday. I haven’t accomplished anything yet. It’s only a gathering of notes in Tomboy.

Also I’d better create a DB application tomorrow. Though most probably I would not be able to accompish even one of these tasks in such a short period of time.

A little less procrastination, a little more action please.

Heh, test this thing.

2010-02-07T00:00:00-08:00

Blog without database. Without any frontend. Interesting. And fairly minimalistic. That’s what appealing.

I think that modern programming suffers from overcomplification. I always have this feeling that things should not be so complex. That there are always easier solutions. We do not have to have a factory of generic factory classes to make a static website. We do not even need a database for a simple one.

I’m working on one small website now, unfortunately I absolutely have to use PHP, but I do not use any database, I do not use any framework, I have one model, couple of controllers and couple of views. Of course I do not structure the project around some kind of generic MVC core. I’m not even sure it’s really MVC. Well, we’ll see.

Okay, there are hooks to the rescue

2010-02-07T00:00:00-08:00

I had a problem with pushing to a repo with a WD. Post-update hook found on a good website promises to help.

Update: The aforementioned hook may be obtained at the following address: http://utsl.gen.nz/git/post-update

Clojure-emacs-windows

2010-02-20T00:00:00-08:00

1. Cygwin

I use cygwin for all my unix on Windows tasks. You may use MSYS or nothing at all probably, but I will tell you here how to do thing using cygwin. Adjust accordingly.

If you want to install cygwin, go to cygwin.org and get setup.exe. Installation is pretty straightforward. If you don’t have wget check it here. Same applies to git.

2. Prerequisites.

Install wget (leiningen uses it), install git (you will need it in your projects, that’s for sure. And most public clojure projects use it). Also you’ll need Java JDK. Since we are on Windows just download it from http://java.sun.com.

3. Ant, Maven and Leiningen

Download Ant and put all its folders into your cygwin directory, so that its bin contents go to /bin, lib to /lib etc.

Download maven and put its folders into, say, /opt/maven. Then add /opt/maven/bin to your path. You DO NOT want to put mnv to /bin because of maven and cygwin specifics (it will not work, most probably).

Now get leiningen script from github (http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/raw/1.1.0/bin/lein). Put it into /bin and run

lein self-install

Now you can create new clojure projects

lein new sample_proj

To put all dependencies in ./lib

lein deps

It will download needed jars and cache them locally in ~/.m2/

To build project

lein clean
lein uberjar

This will create a big jar which contains all dependencies including clojure and clojure-contrib.

4. Clojure box

Download and install the latest version from http://clojure.bighugh.com/ This will get you EMacs with all things configured for clojure.

Happy hacking.