Hi,
I’m putting together a special Clojure issue of PragPub, the magazine of The Pragmatic Programmers, for July, and I’m hoping you can post the following message to the group. (I’m also the editor of the forthcoming 2nd edition of Programming Clojure.) Thank you!
Mike Swaine
PragPub, the free monthly electronic magazine for software developers from The Pragmatic Programmers, will be publishing a special Clojure issue in July, and we’re looking for articles.
I’m committed to sourcing at least one article in that issue from one of the many active Clojure user groups around the world. I’ve been a believer in developer user groups since the 1980s when I was editing Dr. Dobb’s Journal, inspired by Dennis Allison’s image of a community of developers standing on each other’s shoulders, and I know there are some great ideas out there.
So we *will* publish at least one article from a Clojure user group, and when we do, we will prominently acknowledge the user group as well as the author.
I’m speaking now to every member of this group. Write me an article. Write it in whatever format works for you, let the content dictate the length, and for guidance on style, you can’t do better than to look at any of the articles we’ve published in the past two years: http://pragprog.com/magazines. A few of them have even been about Clojure.
As for the technical level, assume the reader is an experience programmer but isn’t experienced with Clojure. Your article will probably, in one way or another, answer the question, why Clojure? It might be a Clojure success story (with a technical explanation of why Clojure was instrumental to the success), or a particular aspect of Clojure that you find interesting (with code showing how it can be used to good effect), or advice on thinking in Clojure. You probably have a better idea than any of these.
I really want to see your idea. Just send it to my email address: michael@pragprog.com. But time is critical. The deadline for articles is only about a month away: June 22. I eagerly await your brilliance.
Mike Swaine
editor, PragPub
michael@pragprog.com
http://pragprog.com/magazines