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ThinkRelevance: The Podcast - Episode 010 - Stu Halloway

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One of the hardest things about working at Relevance over the last couple of years has been keeping quiet about Datomic. So when we heard that Datomic was being released, I immediately sent an email to Stuart Halloway asking if he'd be willing to do a podcast episode, not just because he had such a big hand in Datomic, but because as one of the founders of Relevance and as an all-around interesting guy I knew it would make for a great show.

I don't think I was wrong. So have a listen as we talk about Datomic, simulation testing, a capella music, and what makes Stu want to drop-kick a gorilla, and see if you agree. Thanks for listening!

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Show Notes

• Our guest, Stuart Halloway:
  • @stuarthalloway
  • Stu on GitHub
• The music
  • Stu chose two songs by The Pitchforks, of Duke University, his alma mater
  • The opening music was a cover of "Fireflies", originally by Owl City
  • The closing music was a cover of "Hysteria", by Muse
• People and stuff we mentioned on the show
  • Programming Clojure
  • Datomic
  • Rich Hickey
  • Rich’s Strange Loop keynote from 2011, "Simple Made Easy"
  • complect
  • Neal Ford
  • His "Emergent Design" talk, where he talks about accidental versus essential complexity
  • Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)
  • Logic Programming
  • SQL
  • Git
  • Subversion
  • SourceSafe
  • ACID
  • NoSql
  • Fogus
  • Himera, his ClojureScript compilation service
  • His blog post talking about separating Read from Eval
  • The 2008 JVM Langauge Summit
  • The Pragmatic Studio
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Justin Gehtland
  • Document stores
  • Key-value stores
  • Triplestores
  • Alan Dipert
  • Episode 009, where Alan was a guest
  • Alan’s talk at Clojure/West about data shapes
  • "Yak Shaving"
  • Metadata Partners, maker of Datomic
  • Rich's keynote at the first Clojure/conj
  • The Zoom H4n, which I used to record this episode
  • Tim Ewald
  • How We Work
  • IRC
  • Campfire
  • Skype
  • Mikogo
  • Omnigraffle
  • org-mode
  • Mike Nygard
  • Test-Driven Development (TDD)
  • clojure.data.diff
  • test.generative
  • ClojureScript
  • Datomic pricing
  • Clojure
  • "The Cloud"
  • DynamoDB
  • PLTHulk
  • idempotency