Monthly Archives: April 2009

Looking for a Few Good Critics: May 12th, 7 PM, Carrboro, NC

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 23, 2009

I want to rock the No Fluff, Just Stuff tour, so I’m trying out one of my presentations at Carrboro Creative Coworking (CCC) on May 12th at 7:00 PM. It’s free and open to the public. If you’re reading this, I’d love for you to come and see the presentation and then give me feedback [...]

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I’m Presenting a “Grails Overview” at JavaMUG (Dallas)

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 22, 2009

My blogging hiatus is still on, but I’m just dropping my readers a line about my next event: I’m going to be presenting Grails at JavaMUG in Dallas on May 13th. The event will be held at Sun’s North Dallas Office. More information is here. This event was arranged and subsidized by No Fluff, Just [...]

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Taking a Bit of a Hiatus

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 21, 2009

I’m going to be signing off the blogging for a little while. If you want to know why, listen to my interview on Grails Podcast #81 and/or come to No Fluff, Just Stuff’s Research Triangle Software Symposium (where I’ll be presenting A Practical Take on GORM and JConch and java.util.concurrent: The JVM Concurrency Toolset). For [...]

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Why Your Programming Language Is “Too Academic”

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 18, 2009

The Groovy/Grails Podcast guys asked me what it was like to have a foot in both the Rails and Grails communities, which has gotten me thinking for a while. One of the thoughts I had was about the “too academic” complaint that I hear bandied about so much: language/feature X is too academic, and therefore [...]

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The Blog’s Most Popular Posts

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 11, 2009

Discovered that my blog caching software was screwing up popularity counts — ironically, the more popular a post was, the less likely it was a visit to the post would be counted. So I’ve modified it, and here is the new list of the most popular posts. Take a look at see if there’s something [...]

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