Monthly Archives: February 2009

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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Programming Doesn’t Suck! Or At Least, It Shouldn’t

By Brian Hurt | Published: February 22, 2009

If anyone anywhere should be able to harness the power of computers to make our work easier, it should be us programmers—the ones harnessing the power of computers to make everyone else’s work easier!

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OS-X Shortcuts for Grails (and Other Stuff)

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 12, 2009

I use bash and vi basically as my IDE, so here are a few of my favorite functions. Hopefully people out there can use these functions as a basis to customize their own shell to really be maximally productive. This is a straightforward Hamming encoding of one of my most common commands. alias g=’grails’ This [...]

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Open Source Journaling: Cornerstone

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 11, 2009

I did another brief update to Cornerstone last night. When parsing floating point numbers, I was doing a parse of an integer, then the dot, then a series of digits, and gluing it all together afterwards. Fred Medlin at the Java Hack Night pointed out that was silly, and I should should parse the value [...]

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Open Source Journaling: Autobase v0.8.1

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 9, 2009

Did a bunch of work on Autobase tonight, culminating in a v0.8.1 release. First, I upgraded to Grails 1.1b3. This wasn’t that big a deal, except they moved the staging directory on me, so I had to shift to using stagingDir on the eventWarStart to populate the war. That was on the to-do list for [...]

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