Covert Clojure Lightning Talks

We are pleased to announce that after a bit of a hiatus, Clojure NYC is back! We’ll be hosting the first Clojure NYC meetup of 2017 at 7pm on March 15th at Squarespace.

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This month we will make up for lost time by hosting a series of short talks around the theme of Covert Clojure. If you’re using Clojure for work at the fringes of your enterprise Java stack, if you jack into your REPL after the kids have gone to bed, if you sneak your colleagues Clojure code when your boss isn’t looking, or if you write Clojure tools on sick days, then we’d love to hear from you.

Here are our speakers:

• Tim Gilbert "Ever More Clojure Through Our Pivot" Tim will address the evolution of Clojure at Workframe over the course of a major business and technology pivot.

• Alex Wheeler "Running Rings around Rack" Alex will compare two popular web server interfaces - Ruby's Rack (OO) and Clojure's Ring (FP), to paint a clear picture how functional programming + Clojure's immutable data structures greatly improve our lives as developers by guiding us towards simpler solutions that are much easier to reason about.

• Ahmed Abdalla "Robot Diagnostics with Clojure" Ahmed will show off his CLI for interfacing with hardware via serial ports and websockets!

• Josh Tilles "Conscientious Insubordination" Josh will explain how he discreetly introduced Clojure into his org by automating away one of his manual maintenance responsibilities.

• Dan Vingo "A Brief Intro to OM.Next" Dan will give a quick walkthrough going from empty repo to a simple app that reads data from Wikipedia in om.next, building upon the remote synchronization tutorial: https://github.com/omcljs/om/wiki/Remote-Synchronization-Tutorial" (https://github.com/omcljs/om/wiki/Remote-Synchronization-Tutorial%22)

Finally, with this and all Clojure NYC meetups, feel free to bring your laptop for hacking and any Clojure questions or problems. There will be an opportunity to hang with your peers and get help with anything at all Clojure-related.