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jonpither09:11:03

@paulspencerwilliams: good shout out for brum uni CS dept, as a vet myself..

paulspencerwilliams09:11:05

@jonpither: I missed on on Brum Uni. Have lots of mates that really enjoyed their studies, but I was sunning myself at Bournemouth Uni. Course wasn't as good, but hey, we had :beach_with_umbrella:

jonpither09:11:33

I enjoyed bham uni. Could've worked harder, but hey

thomas10:11:48

@paulspencerwilliams: life is all about priorities..... and the beach sounds like a good one to me 😉

jonpither10:11:07

it's true what they say, you've got your entire working life to 'work'

paulspencerwilliams10:11:20

Shame I'd not heard of Hammock Driven Development at the time

xlevus10:11:30

isn't that just a variant of SSS driven development? (Sun, Sand, Siesta)

paulspencerwilliams10:11:04

true, thought keep that silicon and salt water away from my Macbook 😉

xlevus10:11:01

pfft. Throw more silicon at it, it'll go faster, or grow more ram

jonpither10:11:24

Bit of research, what do people think are the early 'flagship' projects, where you know Clojure was used, and you thought 'wow, Clojure is fit for wide use'?

minimal11:11:23

Riemann was the the first app i used at work

jonpither11:11:02

USwitch was the first place I really understood used it throughout

jonpither11:11:27

Riemann is a good example of a really useful tool - I remember Sam Newmans talk on it at EuroClojure 2012

minimal11:11:02

I started using it at Skimlinks and we ended up using 6 screens out of 15 from the monitor wall to show the dashboard

minimal11:11:30

went from an experiment to essential

jonpither11:11:33

What about actual headline businesses using Clojure?

jonpither11:11:49

i.e. RoomKey (Skimlinks is a good London example)

jonpither11:11:16

Obv MailOnline, OnTheMarket, though looking for others buried just beneath conciousness

minimal11:11:33

Swiftkey have been using it in their new experimental android apps

paulspencerwilliams11:11:01

Walmart? although only in R&D as I understand it?

thomas11:11:49

Amazon uses Clojure, so do Oracle and Apple.... but the last two are fairly recent

thomas11:11:42

and wasn't there a thing called flightcaster fairly early on. dunno if they are still around

thomas11:11:57

ooh... and Nokia (mixradio these days)

tcrayford11:11:06

flightcaster is dead

tcrayford11:11:09

has been for years

xlevus11:11:10

I think the Guardian does too. But I don't think that's actually saying much. They seem to use everything under the sun

tcrayford11:11:20

prismatic still use clojure iirc

tcrayford11:11:34

braintree use clojure in places

thomas11:11:24

and I heard this weird story about this guy in IBM who thinks it is really cool... but as of yet has failed the powers that be to try out Cloujure 😉