Now that we have implemented Black-Scholes in Clojure, let’s make a Swing GUI for it. The Swing GUI will have text boxes for all the necessary inputs, and calculate prices and Greeks when the button is pressed. It’s a simple and straightforward way to get started in Swing GUI programming in Clojure. Here’s what it [...]
Clojure, Log4J, and clojure.contrib.logging can play nicely together. Here’s a reasonable default configuration.
I wanted to parse some externally-generated and malformed HTML, so naturally I went to the short and sweet clojure.xml/parse function. I got a nasty error: error: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd It seems that the W3C blocked access to the DTDs two years ago, but Java still tries to load [...]
The date and time classes built into Java are a horrible mess. What are Clojure programmers to do? Use Joda Time instead. Joda Time is coherently designed and easy to use.
Clojure.contrib.logging doesn’t have any way to set the log level. This is obviously a problem if you want to make use of various log levels (debug, warn, etc.) to separate different logging depths. Here’s a function to set the logging level.
Libcurl’s Java bindings now compile on Macintosh, with a few minor modifications to the Makefile. Get the code from my Github account.
A Clojure version of my Yahoo Finance Ruby gem seemed like an interesting challenge and a good way to learn Clojure better. This version uses Apache HttpClient, which is significantly slower than libcurl. A libcurl version is on the way.
How to load JNI native libraries via Leiningen’s undocumented :native-path argument, for installation of Rincanter.