Working on Demand Service in Clojure

Ubuntu Tux

Today I've spent a good deal of time reading up on clojure and getting up to speed with my co-worker that's got several years of clojure experience on me. I knew going in it was going to be like this, and the learning curve is about what I expected. It's Java, under the hood, and that's got all kinds of pros and cons with it, but there are decent build tools, and I'm able to spend a lot of time getting the build/deployment environment up.

Today I also got the init.d scripts going so that we can start and stop it from a Makefile. Basically, all the things we can do from the rake files of the sister project in Ruby.

There were also issues with building PoestgreSQL 9.2.2, but those weren't hard to solve. Lots of nice progress today.