Perhaps my answer to the What is the good starting point to developing RESTful web service in Clojure? question on SO might be of help to you. It mentions some important web libraries for Clojure (with links and short summaries). The key point which I would like to reiterate here is stated in the first … Read more
UPDATE: After 3 years, It is time to add some updates to this answer. A lot has changed in slim framework (and even PHP) during this time. Slim version 3 has been released and brought some major changes to it. In my tests, It is slightly slower and tad more complicated than slim 2, But … Read more
To quote Wikipedia: A web application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, web applications and web services. The framework aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities performed in Web development. Basically, a web framework makes it easier for you to develop your application. Most … Read more
When I first started with web development, it was with Clojure. I had no prior experience with web development at all. I could not, for the life of me, figure Compojure out. I don’t know if beginner documentation has been improved since then (it wasn’t that long ago) or not, but at the time, I … Read more
All three of those provide functionality. However, there are important differences. A library is just a collection of related functionality. Nothing more, but also nothing less. The defining characteristic of a library is that you are in control, you call the library. The defining characteristic of a framework is Inversion of Control. The framework calls … Read more
Scaffolding generally refers to a quickly set up skeleton for an app. It’s not rails-only since other platforms have it as well. It’s also not generally meant to be a “final” system; merely the first, smallest way to do it.
Going all the way down to the basics for Map and Reduce. Map is a function which “transforms” items in some kind of list to another kind of item and put them back in the same kind of list. suppose I have a list of numbers: [1,2,3] and I want to double every number, in … Read more
I’m very late to answer it. But, I would like to share one example, which I only thought of today. If I told you to cut a piece of paper with dimensions 5m by 5m, then surely you would do that. But suppose I ask you to cut 1000 pieces of paper of the same … Read more
Lets say your company makes 4 different products, your client has another 3 different products from another 3 different companies. Someday the client thought, why don’t we integrate all our systems into one huge system. Ten minutes later their IT department said that will take 2 years. You (the wise developer) said, why don’t we … Read more
A library performs specific, well-defined operations. A framework is a skeleton where the application defines the “meat” of the operation by filling out the skeleton. The skeleton still has code to link up the parts but the most important work is done by the application. Examples of libraries: Network protocols, compression, image manipulation, string utilities, … Read more