The Relevant Bits - 08/23/2010 Edition

Posted by: Stuart Halloway on 08/22/2010

What have we been doing with our "20%" time the past couple weeks? Read on to find out. It's been a busy couple of weeks in the Clojure and Ruby world for us.

  • The (first clojure-conj) was announced. This event is being organized by Clojure/core and Relevance, Inc. Make sure to sign up if you are interested in attending this fantastic opportunity.
  • Clojure/core released Clojure 1.2. If you've been waiting for the official version to be released, the time is now!
  • Alan has been organizing several successful Triangle Hackerspace meetups. Come on by on a Tuesday night if you are in the Triangle area!
  • Rob released a very early version of Nachos, a tool to help you keep all the git repos you care about in sync. Currently it just handles your GitHub watched repos, but feature requests are requested.
  • Shay organized an awesome DevNation in San Francisco, and even delivered a talk about "Getting to Minimum Viable Product."
  • Chris spent a week hanging out at EngineYard hacking on open source software with Carlhuda.
  • Aaron & Stuart S modularized Clojure contrib. Especially if you are a Clojure lib author, read this message.
  • Jason, Jess & Michael released the Venture Dojo website.
  • Stuart S has continued development on Lazytest, his BDD testing framework for Clojure. It is still in an alpha state, but worth checking out to see where he is going with it.
  • Michael released dribbble_desktop, a project for scraping rss feeds of shots from Dribbble.
  • Chad updated his Vimlander 2 config. In addition to other tweaks, he has brought the best Vim config up to MacVim 7.3 compatibility.
  • Aaron, Jon & Stuart H brought labrepl up to Clojure 1.2 goodness. If you are new to Clojure, this is a great way to learn!
  • Jared released version 0.4.4 of PDFKit. If you need to create PDFs, definitely take a look at this library.
  • Alan created a new project reconfig for Reloading configuration files in Clojure daemons.

About Stuart Halloway

Stuart Halloway

Stuart Halloway is the CEO of Relevance, Inc. (www.thinkrelevance.com). With co-founder Justin Gehtland, Stuart helps companies adopt agile, as well as innovative technologies such as Clojure and Ruby on Rails. Stuart is the author of Programming Clojure, Rails for Java Developers, and Component Development for the Java Platform. Prior to founding Relevance, Stuart was the Chief Architect at Near-Time, and the Chief Technical Officer at DevelopMentor.

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