Nic Ferrier
He is a hacker. He's been described as London's leading Emacs pervert. He works as a consultant and coach, teaching companies about DevOps and modern development.
Talks I've Given
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Clojure in a Bank
Featuring Nic Ferrier
In this session Emacs buff Nic Ferrier talks to us about introducing Clojure in a bank. Drawing on personal experience Nic explains how you sell it as well as looking into some of the problems he has already found and how to gain success.
clojure functional-programming finance -
Elnode: the evented IO web server
Featuring Nic Ferrier
''Why leave your editor to run your website?'' says Nic Ferrier, ''just choose a better editor''. Nic introduces Elnode, the evented IO webserver written in EmacsLisp.
functional-programming fpx lisp emacs elnode lexical-scope -
This Year in Emacs
Featuring Nic Ferrier
Emacs is a great operating system and it has at least 3 or 4 good editors. Will this year be when Emacs starts to become a viable application development lisp? Asynchronous servers, web-sockets, web-servers, threads and continuous build systems are all happening.
emacs lisp application-development
