clojure, ring, and 1990's style counters

Clojure is a Lisp-like programming language that runs on the JVM. Ring is a web application library that provides a simple framework for serving HTTP content with clojure. It is similar to Rack for Ruby or WSGI for Python. In this post we will be creating a web application that serves up a 90s style hit-counter GIF image. Skip ahead to the demo (hosted on Heroku) or check out the source....

January 31, 2013