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Stuart Sierra - Podcast Episode 018

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One of the great things about working with Relevance is the opportunity not just to work with excellent developers, but to actually pair with them. One of my favorite people to pair with over the last couple of years has been Stuart Sierra. He and another Relevancer, Luke VanderHart are the authors of Practical Clojure. But they are also working on ClojureScript: Up and Running, the first-ever book about ClojureScript. When I heard that the book would be out soon, it was just one more reason to finally have Stuart on the podcast. We talked about the book, about his role in developing Clojure itself, and about Stuart's decision to take up programming rather than acting.

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Our Guest, Stuart Sierra

• @stuartsierra on Twitter
• On GitHub
• His blog
• His Relevance profile

The Music

Stuart chose George Gershwin's Prelude #1 piano prelude as the intro song, and Oscar Peterson playing On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) to close the show.

Other Notes

• Clojure/core
• Luke VanderHart, author with Stuart of Practical Clojure and fellow Relevancer
• ClojureScript: Up and Running, their new book
• ClojureScript
• Clojure
• The existing Clojure books:
  • Practical Clojure
  • Programming Clojure
  • Clojure in Action
  • Clojure Programming
  • The Joy of Clojure
• Brenton Ashworth
• ClojureScript One
• JavaScript
• Clojure/CLR
• Clojure/conj
• O'Reilly
• Just a few of the many languages that compile to JavaScript
  • ClojureScript
  • CoffeeScript
  • Dart
  • TypeScript
  • Elm
  • Many others
• Strange Loop
• Stuart's talk there
• Clojure/West
• Rich Hickey
• Rich's 2007 talk at Lisp NYC that got Stuart interested in Clojure
• "Humble brag"
• Chris Houser
• clojure.tools.namespace
• Noir
• Rails
• (require :reload-all)
• REPL
• Phil Hagelberg
• Leinginen
• Laurent Petit
• Counterclockwise
• clojure.contrib
• Stuart's article about the changes to contrib
• Subversion
• Clojure's old Subversion repo
• Clojars
• The GitHub Clojure org
• The Clojure Hudson server
• Maven Central
• core.logic
• David Nolen
• test.generative
• QuickCheck
• Haskell
• Columbia University
• Retrospectives
• New York University
  • Their Tisch Scool of the Arts
• Dungeons & Dragons
• The People's Improv Theater