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The author was recently interviewed on Hanselminutes:

http://hanselminutes.com/456/computer-vision-explained-with-...

There is also Veracity SCM [1], but it seems to have gone dormant...

[1] http://veracity-scm.com/

So, EDN [1] is a formalization of Clojure data-literal syntax that includes tagged types, has a text representation, and no built-in caching.

Fressian [2] supports the same types and extensibility as EDN, has a compact binary encoding, and the serializer/writer can choose its own caching strategy (so-called domain-specific caching[3]). I believe it was created to provide a serialization format for Datomic.

Transit sounds like an evolution of EDN and Fressian: make the bottom layer pluggable to support human-readable/browser-friendly JSON or use the well-established msgpack for compactness. Caching is still there, but it can only be used for keywords/strings/symbols/etc. instead of arbitrary values like Fressian -- probably a good trade-off for simplicity.

[1]: http://edn-format.org [2]: http://fressian.org [3]: https://github.com/Datomic/fressian/wiki/Caching

Omega Tau http://omegataupodcast.net/ has in-depth interviews about science and technology.

Highlights are http://omegataupodcast.net/2011/12/83-how-apollo-flew-to-the... and more recently, http://omegataupodcast.net/2014/06/150-the-european-extremel...

This I/O talk may have some pointers:

All the Ships in the World: Visualizing Data with Google Cloud and Maps (https://developers.google.com/live/shows/505972914)

FYI, Chris Hildenbrand has a number of (mostly) free tutorials and game art assets on his blog, including some of the graphics from this game [1].

[1] http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.com/2014/02/top-down...

This was mentioned in Cognicast Episode 50 [1]

[1] http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2014/02/25/luke-vanderhart-an...