This weekend in the Intertweets (July 11th Ed)

• Get Acquainted with Clojure at #DevConLondon with ‘An Introduction to #Clojure’ (here, via @DevConLondon) — Neil Ford from Thoughtworks will be introducing Clojure at London’s DevCon 2010 conference.
• Thoughts on Clojure (here, via @acangiano) — Antonio Cangiano is a Technical Evangelist at IBM. This is an article about Clojure from the Ruby point of view, since Antonio is a published Rubyist. Spoiler Alert: he likes Clojure.
• Awesome new Clojure resources: (1) http://clojure-examples.appspot.com/ (2) http://clojuredocs.org/ (via @kumarshantanu) — Speaking of which:
  • Alpha of http://clojuredocs.org is up! Need your help with examples & feedback (via @napple) — Zachary, somebody beat you to the tweet! (I report tweets in strict chronological order)
  • Proof-of-concept “examples” macro for the REPL (here, via @jkkramer) — So you can access the examples from http://clojure-examples.appspot.com from your REPL. From the same author as the website.
• VoltDB client app written in Clojure. (here, via @arielweisberg) — VoltDB is a “scalable, open-source SQL DBMS with ACID” … take that, noSQL! Anyway, in the linked repository there is some code of a clojure interfacing with this DB performing basic CRUD operations.
• #clojure aleph with mysql, postgresql, mongodb, and @couchdb (here, via @wmacgyver) — David Nolen tests the performance of the interfacing of Clojure with several databases using aleph as a middle tier. Very basic testing, take it with a grain (bucket?) of salt.
• Clomert, a very-very early version of an idiomatic Clojure client for Voldemort (here, via @strlen) — Voldemort is yet another noSQL database (how many already?). It is used at LinkedIn, for example. Very WIP, feedback requested.
• Internet, I give you http://www.clojurls.com news and other bits about #clojure (via @dermattias) — New entry in the Clojure News space (getting crowded around here…). In one page you get tweets from selected clojurians, blogs, mailing-list, StackOverflow and other sources, all related to Clojure.
• Environment Passing in Clojure (here, via @mmgrana) — If my memory is correct, this is not the first post about this issue. When you bind a variable in a new thread, the binding does not get passed to this thread’s child threads (i.e. if you perform a pmap call). This post proposes a simple solution that will carry forward the existing bindings to the new child threads.