cow-blog

A blog written in Clojure using Compojure.

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What it is

A blog written in Clojure using Compojure.

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Observed mentions: 2010-01-10 18:36:12 UTC to 2010-07-01 19:29:10 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Jan 4	2010-01-04 00:00:00 UTC	2010-01-11 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Jan 11	2010-01-11 00:00:00 UTC	2010-01-18 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 18	2010-01-18 00:00:00 UTC	2010-01-25 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 25	2010-01-25 00:00:00 UTC	2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 1	2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-02-08 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 8	2010-02-08 00:00:00 UTC	2010-02-15 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 15	2010-02-15 00:00:00 UTC	2010-02-22 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 22	2010-02-22 00:00:00 UTC	2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 1	2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-03-08 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 8	2010-03-08 00:00:00 UTC	2010-03-15 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 15	2010-03-15 00:00:00 UTC	2010-03-22 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 22	2010-03-22 00:00:00 UTC	2010-03-29 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 29	2010-03-29 00:00:00 UTC	2010-04-05 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 5	2010-04-05 00:00:00 UTC	2010-04-12 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 12	2010-04-12 00:00:00 UTC	2010-04-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 19	2010-04-19 00:00:00 UTC	2010-04-26 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 26	2010-04-26 00:00:00 UTC	2010-05-03 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 3	2010-05-03 00:00:00 UTC	2010-05-10 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 10	2010-05-10 00:00:00 UTC	2010-05-17 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 17	2010-05-17 00:00:00 UTC	2010-05-24 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 24	2010-05-24 00:00:00 UTC	2010-05-31 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 31	2010-05-31 00:00:00 UTC	2010-06-07 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 7	2010-06-07 00:00:00 UTC	2010-06-14 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 14	2010-06-14 00:00:00 UTC	2010-06-21 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 21	2010-06-21 00:00:00 UTC	2010-06-28 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 28	2010-06-28 00:00:00 UTC	2010-07-05 00:00:00 UTC	2	2

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andrewvc·Jul 1, 2010

I haven't been able to find any large (or medium size) OSS apps written in Compojure. The best I was able to dig up was http://github.com/briancarper/cow-blog . Compojure doesn't do much for you (it's like Sinatra), I find it elegant, but it really doesn't give me the massive productivity boost Rails does.

In Compojure 0.4.0 released

mahmud·Jun 29, 2010

Moved a personal blog from MySQL to TokyoCabinet to Postgres? Why? He writes: "I have no idea how to use a key/value store database properly." You don't need a database, or object-store or anything fancy to get decent performance for a personal blog. I use Chronicle and it spits out flat files; lighttpd uses sendfile(2) and everything is fast. FWIW, his blog software is one he wrote in Clojure: http://github.com/briancarper/cow-blog/tree/0.2.0 For read-intensive applications, Sqlite3 would do just well. This write-up should not influence anyone with respect to the (de)merits of MySQL, TokyoCabinet or Postgres.

In Goodbye Tokyo Cabinet, hello PostgreSQL

tcrayford·Jan 10, 2010

Compojure is a good bet for clojure web applications. To get you started, have a look at the source for clojars and briancarpers cow-blog. http://github.com/ato/clojars-web http://github.com/briancarper/cow-blog Brian Carper has a load of information about using compojure on his site (http://briancarper.net). In particular interest are: compojure to the rescue: http://briancarper.net/blog/clojure-and-compojure-to-the-res... deploying clojure sites http://briancarper.net/blog/deploying-clojure-websites

In Ask HN: Clojure best practice for web applications?