Monthly Archives: April 2007

Neil Gaiman Meets CheapAss Games

One of the people I read on LiveJournal was talking on LiveJournal about her run-ins with Neil Gaiman. This got me thinking about my prize possession from Fiddler’s Green, a small convention focusing on Neil Gaiman (and I came back with a LOT of crap from FGCon). That prize possesion is the following autographed Gimme [...]

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Extending Java Syntax

There’s just a few tweaks I’d like to make to Java that would make my life MUCH nicer: Method arguments may not be null unless they are declared nullable (probably by putting a ? after the type name: “foo(Object? obj)”). Method arguments may not be assigned in the body of the argument (assumed to be [...]

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And the OTHER Verdict is…

They’ve accepted my hands-on proposal: “Agile Development Using a Functional Language”. WTF? I figured that was a certain bomb. I was just pitching it out there as a lark. Even one of the reviewers said “probably will be interesting to some attendees, but i expect small turnout.” I already had some research done for the [...]

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And the Verdict is…

Story #1 for Agile 2007 is out. We’ll see about Story #2…but, of the two, that was the one I consider less likely. Well. Shit.

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Ghosts of predicitions past (or, self flagellation for fun and profit)

So, I was listening to the seminars over at the Long Now Foundation (well worth the time to listen to, IMHO), and hit the one about why foxes are better at predicting then hedgehogs. You can pretty much stop reading at this point, as nothing else I’m going to say is going to be as [...]

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