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2015-07-29
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maleghast09:07:34

Hello there everyone - greetings from Hong Kong

ayaz09:07:48

@maleghast: greetings from Hong Kong too 😉

maleghast09:07:27

@ayaz: I am only here for tonight and the work day tomorrow - my company has an office here and I’ve been visiting to welcome some new hires.

maleghast09:07:34

Back again next week.

ayaz09:07:50

Awesome! Do you guys use clojure at your company?

ayaz09:07:27

My company is based in Central and we are moving our platform over to cloure/clojurescript/hoplon

kenneth09:07:34

and datomic

ayaz09:07:09

oh yeah. and I work with @kenneth

maleghast09:07:53

@ayaz: @kenneth Sadly we do not use Clojure - I wish that we did… It’s hard as a Head of Technology / CTO to have to admit that you can’t find enough people with the skill to de-risk using it (we do most of our engineering in The Philippines where I am based)

maleghast09:07:09

@ayaz: What’s your company called?

ayaz09:07:40

Yeah, it is quite hard to find people with clojure skills

ayaz09:07:49

I just started it 4 months ago actually

maleghast09:07:00

@ayaz: Just looking now...

maleghast09:07:06

Looks very interesting - not sure I am going to grok it from a quick 2 minute scan of the website… I will look harder, later on.

dottedmag09:07:39

ayaz: Is it hard to find people on a reasonable budget or at all?

ayaz09:07:44

near impossible to find people who have even heard of clojure here

dottedmag09:07:08

Ah, local, right.

kenneth09:07:27

we have a meetup group with 10 members, 4 of those from our company

kenneth09:07:06

but we think its starting to gain a little traction

maleghast10:07:08

Oooh, when’s the meetup?

maleghast10:07:41

(I’m in Hong Kong a fair bit at the moment)

ayaz10:07:02

@maleghast: We do not have a meetup planned at the moment. However, let us know know when you are in town next time and you can join us for a drink.

ayaz10:07:17

The dev team here usually goes out for a drink on Fridays

maleghast10:07:34

@ayaz: Well, I am rarely around in HK on Fridays, but I will certainly let you know when I am coming back to Town...

maleghast10:07:01

@ayaz: In fact I may as well tell you that I am in Town Mon and Tues evening next week, if you fancy meeting up to eat..?

maleghast10:07:35

@kenneth too, in fact and any other Clojurians - I have been missing the conversation of fellow devotees 😉

onetom10:07:43

@maleghast: you are welcome to our office. we can comfortably sit down and show stuff for each other. either after dinner or we can just bring food here too.

ayaz10:07:07

btw @onetom is our CTO

maleghast10:07:14

@onetom: That sounds lovely, thanks simple_smile

maleghast10:07:34

Where are you based?

maleghast10:07:50

(It’s probably on the website @ayaz sent to me isn’t it?)

ayaz10:07:57

In Central

maleghast10:07:56

The office I am working out of when I am here is just by Victoria Park, so it might make sense to try and meet to eat somewhere in between

ayaz10:07:07

Cool! I'll check with the others and we can setup a time and place for next week simple_smile

maleghast10:07:29

@ayaz: Great, hope to see you then simple_smile

onetom10:07:27

@maleghast: if you want to see some production clojure code checkout our announcement from last year http://hoplon.discoursehosting.net/t/example-migration-from-php-to-clojure/312 we release our public website as an open source project https://github.com/exicon/homepage

maleghast10:07:09

Nice! I will definitely have a look (now) @onetom

maleghast10:07:56

I’m having some trouble running it, but I’ll tinker with it later...

maleghast10:07:54

I probably need to get boot properly up and running before I try, no?

ayaz10:07:33

Yes, it requires boot 1

ayaz10:07:13

https://github.com/tailrecursion/boot

$ wget 
$ mv boot-1.1.1.jar boot
$ chmod a+x boot
$ mv boot ~/bin/boot # or anywhere else in your $PATH

maleghast10:07:56

yep, that did it - thanks @ayaz

maleghast10:07:40

Does the app support boot 2.x @ayaz

maleghast10:07:50

Doesn’t matter I’ve renamed boot to boot_1 so that I can install boot 2 as well simple_smile