We spoke about Relevance's model as a lifestyle company, working with Clojure, and, of course, random other things.
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Friday, July 3, 2009
Conversation with Stuart Halloway
While in Durham, NC, I had the extreme pleasure to spend 3 days at Relevance Software. I got to pair with some great people, including a day of Clojure coding with Stuart Halloway, author of Programming Clojure and co-owner of Relevance.
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Another great interview Thanks, Corey. Stuart makes a lot of really interesting and important points throughout. I was even inspired enough to go check out Clojure.
ReplyDeleteI was particularly interested in Stuart's take on 20% time. I was always a little worried that 20% time tends to encourage people to work in an isoalted way, but having the entire company do 20% time at the /same/ time is one way to get both the innovation/creativity flowing and not lose the team-focused environment.
Thanks, James.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Relevance's take on the 20% time is a great one. I was there for an "Open Source Friday," and it really worked well; everyone was engaged and still working together.
Very cool interview. I like the informalness of these interviews. I have his programming clojure on the shelf waiting to be read after I finish the current book I'm reading.
ReplyDeleteI like Stuart's take on 20% working on Open Source or investigating new languages/idea.
ReplyDeleteThe most dangerous infestion for software developers are "skill-rot".
I have read his classic "Component Development for the Java Platform" - though dated, but still a great read for insights.
I have Scala on my bookshelf.
Now, I will give Clojure a second look.