Just wanted to say that this was just one of many great presentations at the Clojure/conj! * Christophe Grand's gave a fantastic presentation called (no

Just wanted to say that this was just one of many great presentations at the Clojure/conj! * Christophe Grand's gave a fantastic presentation called (not= DSL macros) http://vrac.cgrand.net/DSL.pdf (PDF). * Zachary Tellman's lightning talk on Aleph was eye-opening (evented programming using sequence abstractions!). * Alex Miller's preso on extending zipper functionality to records, http://tech.puredanger.com/2010/10/22/zippers-with-records-in-clojure/ * Chris Houser's finger trees adds a useful new persistent data structure to Clojure's arsenal http://github.com/Chouser/talk-finger-tree/tree/ Rich Hickey gave a particularly provoking talk that directly attacks our programming culture that focuses too much on rapid iteration, immediate tactics, and testing. He argues strongly for considered design, deep contemplation, thorough research, and most importantly working without a computer (preferably lying in a hammock :)