This is an interactive book which aims to be the best place on the internet for learning SQL. It is free of charge, free of ads and doesn't require registration or downloads. It helps you learn by running queries against a real-world dataset to complete projects of consequence. It is not a mere reference page — it conveys a mental model for writing SQL.

I expect little to no coding knowledge. Each chapter is designed to take about 30 minutes. As more of the world's data is stored in databases, I expect that this time will pay rich dividends!

Most of the GNU Emacs integrated environment is written in the programming language called Emacs Lisp. The code written in this programming language is the software—the sets of instructions—that tell the computer what to do when you give it commands. Emacs is designed so that you can write new code in Emacs Lisp and easily install it as an extension to the editor.

(GNU Emacs is sometimes called an “extensible editor”, but it does much more than provide editing capabilities. It is better to refer to Emacs as an “extensible computing environment”. However, that phrase is quite a mouthful. It is easier to refer to Emacs simply as an editor. Moreover, everything you do in Emacs—find the Mayan date and phases of the moon, simplify polynomials, debug code, manage files, read letters, write books—all these activities are kinds of editing in the most general sense of the word.)

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Why Study Emacs Lisp?

Although Emacs Lisp is usually thought of in association only with Emacs, it is a full computer programming language. You can use Emacs Lisp as you would any other programming language.

Perhaps you want to understand programming; perhaps you want to extend Emacs; or perhaps you want to become a programmer. This introduction to Emacs Lisp is designed to get you started: to guide you in learning the fundamentals of programming, and more importantly, to show you how you can teach yourself to go further.

Compiling your source code files can be tedious, specially when you want to include several source files and have to type the compiling command everytime you want to do it.

A few months ago Magnar Sveen released Stasis. A minimalistic Clojure library for generating static pages. I tried it out and decided, hey, this is pretty cool, I can use this, and probably also learn a bit of Clojure in the process (been doing Clojure on and off for the last year or so.)

It's taken some time, I've been pretty busy lately and have only been able to put in a few hours in the evenings now and then - but, it's ready! Or at least ready enough to crank out a few initial pages. There's still lots to do, but, release early and iterate I guess :)

The code is over at Github if you're interested: Bløggr-clj.