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Going to OSCON in July? Maybe we’ll see you there. Or at another of these upcoming events.

  • July 9-12, Toronto, Ontario
    FutureRuby Conference
  • July 15-17, Reston, VA *SOLD OUT*
    Advanced Ruby Studio
  • July 20-24, San Jose, CA
    OSCON
  • July 15, Southern District of New York
    Deadline for former IBM executive Papermaster to testify under penalty of perjury that he has not used or disclosed IBM confidential information, and that he does not intend to do so.
  • Wed Jul 22, OSCON 2009, San Jose, CA
    Sessions: Just Enough C For Open Source Projects; Effective Job Interviewing from Both Sides of the Desk
    Andy Lester, author of Land the Tech Job You Love
  • Wed Jul 22, OSCON, San Jose, CA
    Session: Testing iPhone Apps with Ruby and Cucumber
    Ian Dees, author of Scripted GUI Testing With Ruby
  • Wed Jul 22, OSCON, San Jose, CA
    Session: Practical Object-Oriented Models in SQL
    Bill Karwin, author of SQL Antipatterns
  • July 24-25, London
    Rails Underground
  • Fri Jul 24, London, UK
    Rails Underground
    Maik Schmidt, author of Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails
  • July 30-Aug 1, Philadelphia, PA
    RubyRX / AgileRX
  • Thu Jul 30, Philadelphia, PA
    AgileRX
    Esther Derby, author of Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management; Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
  • Thu Jul 30, Philadelphia, PA
    RubyRX/AgileRX This combo conference in Philly has the best of both Ruby and Agile speakers!
    Jared Richardson, author of Ship It!
  • Aug 4-7, Reston, VA
    iPhone SDK Studio
  • Aug 13-16, San Francisco, CA
    Filemaker Developer Conference 2009
  • Aug 19-21, Denver, CO
    Ruby on Rails Studio
  • Thu Aug 20, Amelia Island, Florida
    Biz Conference
    Esther Derby, author of Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management; Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
  • Aug 24-28, Chicago
    Agile 2009
  • Mon Aug 24, Chicago, IL
    Agile Coaching workshop, Agile2009 Conference
    Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley, authors of Agile Coaching
  • Mon Aug 24, Chicago, IL
    Agile 2009
    Esther Derby, author of Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management; Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
  • Mon Aug 24, Agile 2009
    Sessions: Idea Factory (with David Carlton) and Eight Guiding Values
    Brian Marick, author of Everyday Scripting With Ruby and the upcoming RubyCocoa book
  • Aug 25-28, Denver, CO
    iPhone SDK Studio
  • Aug 25
    Linux turns 18. Free krill for all!
  • Thu Sep 3, Reston, VA
    AgileRX
    Esther Derby, author of Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management; Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
  • Fri Sep 4, Washington, DC
    RubyRX/AgileRX
    Jared Richardson, author of Ship It!
  • Sept. 9-10, Washington, DC
    Gov 2.0 Summit
  • Sept 22-24, Cambridge, MA
    EmTech09
  • Sept 28-30, Berlin
    NanoTech Europe
  • Shady Illuminations
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PragPub—July 2009

Table of Contents

Features

  • The Layoffs Are Coming!
    by Andy Lester
    Andy wrote the book on finding tech jobs (Land the Tech Job You Love). Here he tells you how to keep the job you have.
  • Why Clojure?
    interviewed by Michael Swaine
    Rich Hickey created Clojure, a modern dialect of Lisp that targets the JVM. In this PragPub interview, Rich explains what that means to you.
  • When Things Go Wrong
    by Stuart Halloway
    As Stuart demonstrates in this deep immersion in Clojure coding, one of Clojure’s strengths is how it shines when things go wrong.
  • Pragmatic Publishing
    interviewed by Michael Swaine
    Dave Thomas talks about the decisions behind Pragmatic Bookshelf’s comprehensive ebook program, and how book publishing is undergoing a transformation, from electronic versus paper to direct sales versus the channel.

Departments

  • Welcome to PragPub
    by Andy Hunt and , Dave Thomas
    Time to start a real dialogue among highly talented, skilled professionals who care about their craft.
  • Up Front
    by Michael Swaine
    Michael says hello, world.
  • Choice Bits
    Tweets, posts and chatter on job searches and revolving doors, book reviewers and bonus tracks, Google Wave and shampoo bottles, desires, donkeys, and daydreams.
  • How Do We...?
    People often ask how we do what we do. This monthly series explains…
  • Swaine’s World
    by Michael Swaine
    In which Mike loses his job and offers you career advice.
  • The Quiz
    A monthly diversion at least peripherally related to programming.
  • Shady Illuminations
    by John Shade
    Columnist John Shade casts a jaundiced eye on Microsoft’s latest attempt to out-google Google.
  • Calendar
    Author sightings and other notable events.

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