PragPub, November 2010

Features

• Let’s Talk about Your Book
  by Michael Swaine
  Susannah Pfalzer, managing editor of The Pragmatic Bookshelf, talks about writing, from the hero’s journey to PragProWriMo.
• Writing and Performing
  by Chris McMahon
  Agile software development has all the hallmarks of an artistic performance like those of music, theater, or dance. It requires practice; it requires rehearsal; it requires a team to be constantly negotiating their own personal and professional relationships among themselves.
• Getting Clojure
  by Gregg Williams
  It’s incredibly easy to call Java code from Clojure, but who would have thought that modifying an existing Java library would be such uncharted territory? Gregg shares what he has learned.
• Shu Ha Ri
  by Jeff Langr, Tim Ottinger
  Our well-meaning agile coach’s maturity model was based, either deliberately or subconsciously, on Shuhari, a Japanese martial arts concept involving three stages of mastery: “first learn, then detach, and finally transcend.”
• When Did That Happen?
  by Dan Wohlbruck
  From 1925 to 1955 was the Golden Era of Radio. Almost 90% of the population of the United States owned and regularly listened to the radio. And broadcasting began in this month, ninety years ago.