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Author: Juraj Martinka

I’m a curious software developer with the passion for Learning, Self-improvement and Clean Code. I’ve been coding (mostly) in Java since 2008, but I’ve been really interested in Clojure recently. Twitter: https://twitter.com/martinkajuraj GitHub: https://github.com/jumarko LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juraj-martinka-69916826/ StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/1184752/jumar Old blog: https://outofsingularity.wordpress.com

My (Clojure) learning strategy

February 15, 2017May 12, 2017 by Juraj Martinka - Leave a Comment

In this post, I’ll discuss the general learning strategy and show an example how to apply it to Learning the Clojure programming language. I was heavily inspired by 10-step learning process from John Sonmez which I first encountered in his book Soft Skills: The software developer’s life manual and the process outlined in the book Novice to Expert: 6 Steps to […]

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Random excerpts from Brno Clojure Meetup

February 8, 2017May 12, 2017 by Juraj Martinka - Leave a Comment

Last week, I was quite happy to attend (:brno Clojure) meetup. There were only five people including me. Nevertheless, we had a great time and covered a lot of topics. There was no main theme, just live free and spontaneous discussion about our experience with Clojure. We discussed following topics: server-side template duct easy-to-use template […]

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Why do I want to learn Clojure and why you should too

January 31, 2017May 12, 2017 by Juraj Martinka - Leave a Comment

Since 2010, I’ve been interested in functional programming and non-Java JVM languages, most notably Scala & Groovy. However, whenever I tried to learn Scala, I ended up confused. I started with a passion, but the complexity of the language perplexed me. I love the ideas of Functional Programming: pure functions avoiding mutable state no side […]

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How to Create a Blog To Boost Your Career

January 28, 2017October 27, 2017 by Juraj Martinka - Leave a Comment

Here I am, finally writing the first blog post for my new blog. I’ve managed to sit down and do the hard work – without any excuses. It’s been nine months since I bought a copy of John Sonmez’s book Soft Skills: The software developer’s life manual. However, I didn’t get to read it for quite […]

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