Monthly Archives: August 2007

A Note on Religious Terminology

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 27, 2007

Editor’s Note: The best part of this post is the comments that follow it. Be sure to read them: lots of cool conversation and some juicy links down there. Started listening to The Infidel Guy Show, which was referred to me as a good “secular humanist” podcast. It really is good, and there was a [...]

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Frustrations with Maven

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 25, 2007

I’ve never had the joy of working with Maven directly — every time one of my projects get near it, there’s a developer revolt and we end up hand-rolling the project build/deploy tools through Ant files and shell scripts. This approach is not as painful as it used to be, but it seems like there [...]

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Non-Relativistic Religious Tolerance

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 20, 2007

Because you believe in the Christian tradition, which affirms the creation of the human race in the image of God…because of that, because, therefore, religious faith is so important, rather than because it is so trivial, therefore you must not constrain others, because faith can only be given freely. — Jaroslav Pelikan, “Speaking of Faith: [...]

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Meaning in the Church

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 19, 2007

Presbyterian Bloggers: Meaning A nice formulation of the identity crisis churches are having right now. In an effort to be more acceptable to more people, some churches have become de facto social or philanthropic clubs: “recycling money in a religious way”, as the blog puts it. The blog then gets into that a bit more. [...]

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It’s not just about multicores

By Brian Hurt | Published: August 13, 2007

There has been a lot of talk recently, with programmers waking up and realizing that with the advent of multicore CPUs, multithreading is here to stay. I’ve just come to the realization that they’re missing the point- it’s not just about the multicores. Even if you take multiprocessing out of the picture, and just look [...]

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