Stuart Halloway

Narcissistic Design: 10 Steps to Complex Code and Job Security

The software industry changes rapidly, but you can protect yourself
from these changes by creating code that is complicated enough that
only you can maintain it.

ClojureScript

ClojureScript brings the sophisticated semantics of a world-class
production language (Clojure) to the world's dominant deployment
platform (JavaScript, especially running in the browser).

ClojureScript enables browser development that is cheaper, leaner, and
more performant than JavaScript (and “slightly enhanced JavaScript”
alternatives), and makes it possible to share code between
client and server side development.

core.async

The goal of core.async is to decouple producers and consumers of
information in software, without dictating specific thread or blocking
semantics, and without introducing callback hell. Also, to do all of this
as a library, portable anywhere you can run a dialect of Clojure.

Queues are a powerful tool for decoupling software
programs. Unfortunately, platforms that have powerful queueing
libraries (e.g. Java) may require blocking threads on the ends of the
queue. And the world's biggest platform (JavaScript in the browser)
doesn't even have queues or threads.

core.async builds upon the work done with Communicating Sequential
Processes,
and provides:

• facilities for independent threads of activity, communicating via
  queue-like channels
• both real threads and shared use of thread
  pools (in any combination), as well as ClojureScript on JS engines

Codeq: Making Git Repositories Smarter

Git is awesome, but it knows only text. Codeq extends git to analyze and understand quantum units of your code (codeqs), giving you the power of a database over your code.

Introduction to Clojure

Clojure is a powerful dynamic language that compiles to many target environments, including the JVM, JavaScript, and the CLR. In this talk, you will learn how to think in Clojure, and why you should want to.