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February 03, 2016
The new year is well under way already, and new and updated tech just keeps on on coming.
First up, the new and improved Web Development with Clojure, Second Edition: Build Bulletproof Web Apps with Less Code, now in beta from pragprog.com/book/dswdcloj2.
And check out the latest and greatest issue of the monthly PragPub magazine, now available from theprosegarden.com.
It's the shortest month of the year, so whatever you're going to get started, get started now.
Web Development with Clojure, Second Edition: Build Bulletproof Web Apps with Less Code
Stop developing web apps with yesterday's tools. Today, developers are increasingly adopting Clojure as a web-development platform. See for yourself what makes Clojure so desirable, as you create a series of web apps of growing complexity, exhibiting the full process of web development using a modern functional language. Journey through all the steps in developing a rich Picture Gallery web application—from conception to packaging and deployment. You'll work hands-on with Clojure and build real-world, professional web apps.
This fully updated second edition reveals the changes in the rapidly evolving Clojure ecosystem. Get up to speed on the many new libraries, tools, and best practices. Gain expertise in the popular Ring/Compojure stack using the Luminus framework. Learn how Clojure works with databases and speeds development of RESTful services. See why ClojureScript is rapidly becoming a popular front-end platform, and use ClojureScript with the popular Reagent library to build Single Page Applications.
This book is for you, whether you're already familiar with Clojure or if you're completely new to the language.
Now available from pragprog.com/book/dswdcloj2.
February PragPub Magazine
In PragPub this month our series on hypertext visionary Ted Nelson continues, focusing on Ted's college years. It was there that his views on civilization and communication began to take shape. We sample some of the newspaper columns he was writing back then, and discover that the author of Computer Lib was already recognizable in Ted's college writing. We look at some of his influences and discover exactly where and when he had the fundamental insight that led ultimately to Xanadu.
Ken Rimple has been working with Angular 2, the new and challengingly different version of the popular development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications. He quickly realized that there was a serious lack of samples of tests for developers. His article in this issue takes on that problem directly, with working code samples to get you going.
Metal is the low-level hardware-accelerated graphics API that Apple introduced in iOS 8. It's designed to give you the lowest-overhead access to the GPU for graphics-intensive apps for iOS and OS X. As Janie Clayton says in her article this month, "It was the most exciting announcement of WWDC for approximately five minutes until Swift was announced." Her article taps both those themes, showing how to build a template that can be used as a base to get Metal up and running.
Should designers know how to program? No, says Lukas Mathis, and he can defend his position. But there is one situation where he thinks differently. In this issue he explains when and why designers should acquire some developer knowledge.
In his column on the challenges of being a manager, Marcus Blankenship tells a story and presents a quiz. It's all about what you should do when that hotshot programmer you just hired completes that first assignment—and it's a disappointment. How you respond will shape the developer's relationship with the job from that point forward. Would you know what to do?
Johanna Rothman and Andy Lester chat about open source projects in their career column this month. The most direct benefit in contributing to open source projects comes when you're helping to improve the work products you use every day. But there are a lot of other benefits, including some you may not have thought of.
Also this month: Antonio Cangiano reports on thirty new tech books and your editor presents a puzzle and other goodies.
Now available from theprosegarden.com.
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