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El Humidor

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El Humidor is a personal blog at elhumidor.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Clojure on Google AppEngine”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.

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7HN people?
2009–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link these posts on running Clojure on Google App Engine, including a Compojure example and a tutorial. The comments are pointers to the posts and do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Clojure on Google AppEngine
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-04-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. I've been using Clojure w/ GAE to build an enterprise knowledge-base webservice for about 3 months now. It's my first serious project with Clojure on the GAE although I've been playing around with it since last summer. (1) On GAE you don't get to use some of the good parts of Clojure because you can't spawn any threads. So the rationale for Clojure has to be something else than agents and the Clojure concurrency mod…

    Comment linking /2009/04/clojure-on-google-appengine.html

    on “Who's using Google App Engine?”
  2. Submitted Clojure on Google AppEngine as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. For the interested, here's an example of using Clojure with Compojure on the GAE: http://elhumidor.blogspot.com/2009/04/clojure-on-google-appe...

    Comment linking /2009/04/clojure-on-google-appengine.html

    on “Clojure on the Google App Engine”
  4. Submitted Why not to use my library clj-record as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. This also means that you can write web apps in Clojure and deploy them on one of the many Java-based web platforms - that is, its reasonably easy to get your Clojure (or rather, JVM) based web app out there. Including App Engine (and thus you can also write bots for Wave) http://elhumidor.blogspot.com/2009/04/clojure-on-google-appe...

    Comment linking /2009/04/clojure-on-google-appengine.html

    on “Clojure, Scheme or Haskell ?”
  6. Submitted El Humidor: The Ins and Outs of clj-record Validations as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Believe it. [update] Alright no one likes TinyURL. I get it. Here's a more informative tutorial about running Clojure on GAE. http://elhumidor.blogspot.com/2009/04/clojure-on-google-appe...

    Comment linking /2009/04/clojure-on-google-appengine.html

    on a deleted thread

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