Monthly Archives: February 2008

The Other Election

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 14, 2008

Although most of my readers won’t care, there’s an interesting election* other than the Presidential race which I have been following — namely, the election of the Moderator of the General Assembly of the PC(USA). I’ve officially decided that I support Bruce Reyes-Chow, and this is why: “Why being painfully fair is, well, painful” Some [...]

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CacheMap Examples

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 13, 2008

I’ve posted some CacheMap examples over on the JConch pages. Go, take a look, and let me know what your comments are. Hopefully this makes things a bit more obvious. I’ve also updated the CacheMap implementation so that it doesn’t spin when the transformer generates null values, and you can put null values into the [...]

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Configuration is Code: Presented on Grails Spring Bean Builder (a.k.a. Groovy Spring Builder)

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 13, 2008

Last night, I presented at Groovy.MN on the Grails Spring Bean Builder, which is actually independent of the larger Grails project. It’s a nifty way to build Spring ApplicationContext using the Groovy Builder pattern instead of XML. I’m a big fan of Spring, because the reality of most applications is that they have a lot [...]

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Fascinating Podcasts: “US History from Civil War to the Present” and “Apologetics & Outreach”

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 9, 2008

I’ve been listening to a lot of collegiate and graduate courses on podcast. In particular, I’ve been perusing the Berkley Podcasts, and they’re all pretty good for what they are. From that list, I particularly recommend History 7B: US History from Civil War to the Present by Jennifer Burns, which really does a nice job [...]

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On Feed Each Other

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 7, 2008

I’ve signed up as RobertFischer on Feed Each Other, under the recommendation of someone on the blog. I’m just trying it out, so this isn’t to be construed as a recommendation. Anyone else on there?

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