Be Productive in Clojure from Day One

Clojure is not just a language; it's a tool at the center of a large and growing ecosystem of tools, books, documentation, and libraries. If you want to be effective with Clojure from Day One you'll want to know about what's out there and how to best use it.

Clojure's threadbare home page belies a critical fact: there are some amazing tools, books, libraries, documentation, and other resources out there to make you effective in this excellent language from Day One. In this talk we'll cover a few of the most important ones:

  • The Leiningen build tool
  • Clojars: the central repository for Clojure libraries
  • Cursive: the super-productive development environment built on IntelliJ
  • The best Clojure web sites and books

We'll cover how to get a project started, the best way to write and debug your code, and even how to publish your new library for others to use … and where to turn when you hit a stumbling block.


Howard Lewis Ship

About Howard Lewis Ship

Howard Lewis Ship is the original creator of the Apache Tapestry project, and is a noted expert on Java framework design and developer productivity. He has over twenty years of full-time software development under his belt, with over fifteen years of Java. He cut his teeth writing customer support software for Stratus Computer, but eventually traded PL/1 for Objective-C and NeXTSTEP before settling into Java.

Howard has been developing financial and e-commerce applications in 100% Clojure since 2012.

Howard currently works for Wal-Mart's Global E-Commerce division. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Suzanne, and his children, Jacob and Olivia.

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