- I am the founder of Snowtide — which sells PDFTextStream, a PDF text extraction library for Java and .NET – and the creator of the Clojure Atlas. I do a lot of programming in Clojure and just a little in Java.
– Chas Emerick
Category Archives: Books
‘Clojure Programming’ book now available
Update [2011-08-23 18:49 UTC]: The Rough Cut of Clojure Programming has been updated significantly since this post originally went live. Go check it out. :-) Some time ago, I announced that I was coauthoring a book on Clojure for O’Reilly (see … Continue reading
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“Clojure Programming”, the book
Update: Clojure Programming is now available! I’m very happy to announce that I and Dave Fayram (formerly of Powerset and Microsoft, and now of BankSimple) have recently committed to writing a book on Clojure, tentatively titled “Clojure Programming”, to be … Continue reading
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Xerox’s Inspirational Carlson and Wilson
This book tells a great story, but I’m not writing a book review. What struck me most reading this book was the glimpse provided of Chester Carlson, the inventor of electrophotography, and Joseph C. Wilson, the co-founder of Xerox (née The Haloid Photographic Company). As far as I can tell, these men were forces of nature unto themselves, and possessed an array of values and principles that I find remarkable and inspirational. Continue reading
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