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/dev/summer 2016 is almost upon us. This is the latest in a series of bi-annual developer conferences organized by our friends at Software Acumen, and will be taking place at the Møller Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge next Saturday 25th June. It’s a low cost, high value software developer event covering DevOps, Mobile, Web, NoSQL, Cloud, Functional Programming, Startups and more.

Back in 2014 Jim Downing (Metail CTO) and I gave a hands-on session based on an extended version of TryClojure, where participants got to implement a Sudoku solver in Clojure. This year we’re back with another REPL-driven development session. We’ll be showing people how to write a chat bot in Clojure. We’ll cover Clojure as a REST client, build a simple web service using Ring and Compojure, deploy our application to Heroku, and configure a Slack command integration.

If that’s not your cup of tea, there are plenty of other sessions to choose from and the conference provides an excellent opportunity to meet and chat with experts in your field in a friendly and relaxed environment. Metail is sponsoring this year’s event – look out for our stall. Oh, and we’re hiring! If you’d like to make Clojure and ClojureScript part of your day job, or are interested in any of the other tech jobs we’re advertising in Cambridge, come along and talk to us.

Tickets for /dev/summer are on sale here.

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A bunch of Metail Clojurians are off to Clojure eXchange 2015 this week.

Members from the Data Science, Data Engineering and Web teams will be catching up on what’s new and seeing how others are using Clojure to solve their problems. Metail make extensive use of Clojure and ClojureScript for a lot of our internal tools. We are also currently investigating the feasibility of using ClojureScript to implement the next version of our MeModel visualisation product instead of CoffeeScript and Backbone.

Some of the Clojure tech that we currently use is: Cascalog, Om (Now and Next), Immutant, Prismatic/Schema, Figwheel. Grab one of us if you want to talk about our experiences with any of these or anything Clojure or Data related.

All the content looks really interesting, some highlights of particular interest:

  • Bozhidar Batsov – CIDER: The journey so far and the road ahead
  • Kris Jenkins – ClojureScript: Architecting for Scale
  • Nicola Mometto – Immutable code analysis with tools.analyzer
  • Hans Hubner – Datomic in Practice

Looking forward to all the talks, catching up with old friends and making new ones. See you there.