New Geek magazine from Pragmatic Programmers

Publisher Pragmatic Programmers has launched sort of an agile published magazine called PragPub distributed for free in pdf, epub and mobi format. Consequentially the first issue is called first iteration. Editor of the magazine is Michael Swaine, former editor-in-chief at Dr. Dobb’s Journal.
The magazine features high quality articles expressly for the magazine. Attached to each article is list of directly linked useful links. The main articles are:

• The Layoffs Are Coming!
  How to Keep Your Tech Job by Andy Lester


• Why Clojure?
  Rich Hickey interviewd by Michael Swaine


• When Things Go Wrong
  Clojure’s Exceptional Handling of Exceptions by Stuart Halloway


• Pragmatic Publishing
  Dave Thomas (one of the owners of Pragmatic Programmer) interviewd by Michael Swaine

The set is completed by Welcome to Prag Pub (intro to the magazine), Up Front (Editorial), Choice Bits (tweets, posts and chatter on every topic in the world), How Do We…? (have a look behind the curtain how PragProg does business), Swaine’s World (in which Michael Swaine loses his job and offers you career advice), The Quiz (geeky quiz about lesser known programming languages), Shady Illuminations (column by John Shade on Microsofts Bing) and Calendar (geeky events).
Its well written, informative, high quality and just fun reading. And by the way Michael Swaine is one of my early computer science heroes from his time with Dr. Dobb’s Journal.