Dale Thatcher from the London Clojure community created a Clojure project that allows you to fly a plane in real time. Now, Dale has not yet connected this to a real plane, instead he is using the open source flight simulator, FlightGear.

I took Dale’s project for a test flight and here are my experiences!

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I have not found any Ubuntu related video’s for the Lenovo X1 Carbon, but here is an unboxing video that gives you some idea of how slim this laptop actually is.

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@JR0cket

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There are a few little tweaks that I find make using http://www.ubuntu.com desktop just that little bit nicer. The easiest way I have found to make these changes is using Ubuntu Tweak.

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So I bought the Lenovo X1 Carbon for development and an important part of that is having some good tunes to listen too. As I also travel a lot, its also useful to have a good display for movies and screen-casts.

Well, the X1 Carbon give great results in both sound and vision.

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I have a lovely new Lenovo X1 Carbon and to make it even better I am installing Ubuntu. The installation should be a breeze as Lenovo laptops are usually well supported, the only thing I configured was in the BIOS. I wanted to check the boot order and see what the boot menu key was so I could install Ubuntu from a USB memory stick (boot menu key is F12).

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After a bit of research on the level of http://www.ubuntu.com support, I decided to get a Lenovo X1 Carbon for my new development machine.

If you have never seen the X1 Carbon, its like a really special edition of a Mac Book Air, except much more awesome and more powerful. Here are my impressions so far.

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When 100 developers and 1 robot signed up for the February edition of Hack the Tower, across many technical communities in London, I could tell it was going to be a big event.

Heading out for a full day of coding @HackTheTower - excited about what people will create today #LSDC #LondonScala #LJCjug #LdnClj #robots

Developers arrived from different communities, including

• London Scala user group
• London Clojure community
• London Java Community
• London Salesforce developers
• London Software Craftsmanship>

@sandromancuso Yeah our little team is awesome, I believe we’re the last ones still coding :) @HackTheTower idea is great, I truly enjoy it!

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Leiningen is a project automation tool (think build tool and them some) that uses a Clojure macro to make it easy for Clojure developers to manage their project lifecycle.

A Clojure project managed by Leiningen uses a simple clojure file called project.clj which allows developers to define a whole range of stuff about their projects. To get started you only have to define a name, a version of Clojure and any dependencies in your project.clj and Leininge does the rest.

So lets take a quick look under the hood of Leiningen and its defproject macro to see what is going on.

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Its easy to create a new repository on Github website and then use your git tool or command line to clone it or add that remote repository to your project on your development machine. It would be even easier if you could just do it all from the command line with one command. Well, if you install Hub then you can!

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Lots of developers are using git, especially when working on projects together.  However there is not one single developer tool that every one uses, so there is potential for a lot of unwanted files to end up in your project.

Rather than pollute the .gitignore file for the project with every development tool under the sun, its much more effective to add development tool specific files to your own global ignore file ~/.gitignore_global.

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