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I’m not joining the strike

By Brian Hurt | Published: February 25, 2009

So Lawrence Lessig, who I have a huge amount of admiration for, is advocating that we, the small time internet-centric donors, go on strike, and refuse to donate any more money to any candidate who doesn’t support public financing of campaigns. For Lessig’s side of the issue, see here. I’m not joining the strike- in [...]

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Online Groovy and Grails Training

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 3, 2009

One project I’ve been working on — although not the super exciting one I can’t talk about — is online training on Groovy and Grails. The idea is to offer affordable, web-based training spread out as a series of 2-hour classes. This structure should work a lot better given our economic crisis: people don’t have [...]

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Return on Investment

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 1, 2009

Over on my twitter stream, there was a brief conversation on first programming languages. Assuming you don’t count Zork, my first programming language was TI-BASIC, initially on the TI-82 but really on the TI-83. It started with creating a blackjack game because I was bored in class[1]. In short order, though, I was programming the [...]

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Random thoughts on Haskell

By Brian Hurt | Published: January 15, 2009

So I’ve been programming in Haskell a lot recently, and thought I’d just share some of the random observations I’ve had about the language.

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Back on the Market: Need a Java/Groovy/Grails Expert?

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 11, 2009

The company I was working for didn’t get the investment they were counting on, so I’m back on the market. Anyone out there looking for a Java/Groovy/Grails expert? Although I prefer to work as a contractor, I’m willing to consider full-time opportunities, provided they’re willing to work around my school schedule.

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