This series is nice in that it shows working with databases (and schema migrations!), using the ring http abstraction, and hooking the two together. That said,

This series is nice in that it shows working with databases (and schema migrations!), using the ring http abstraction, and hooking the two together. That said, I think that clojure is one of the worst platforms you could choose for building a blog (at least if you did it the way described in this article rather than the approach taken by things like jekyll). I understand the choice to build a blog was arbitrary, but as a clojure dev looking at this it just looks an immensely painful process for something that should be one of the simplest things to do on the web. I've found clojure to be a fantastic language for managing data transformations (we're using it for continuous delivery stuff at work and it's been remarkable). For static content like a blog it just seems remarkably burdensome. There is probably a reason most clojure developers don't use blogs written in clojure.