Monthly Archives: May 2009

Testing a New Feature

By Robert Fischer | Published: May 30, 2009

These are the techno babble details! For an upcoming post, Brian needs a way to cut the math down for people who don’t care to see it. Those just reeding the RSS feed probably noticed nothing interesting in this post. Same stunt, no title

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Enfranchised Mind for the Kindle

By Robert Fischer | Published: May 28, 2009

Just dropping a line to you, the loyal readership: you can now read Enfranchised Mind on your Kindle, if you feel so in inclined. See the Enfranchised Mind Kindle subscription product page for more information. A review would be deeply appreciated, too!

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Web Dev Geekly #14

By Robert Fischer | Published: May 25, 2009

Looks like my Web Dev Geekly #13 appearance wasn’t a one night stand: I’m on Web Dev Geekly #14, too. Clocking in at a whopping 78 minutes, we discuss messed up British keyboards, functional testing approaches, the future of FireFlox plugins, why iPhone is getting so much love from developers, programming font fetishists, and the [...]

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FYI: Gardening Blog

By Robert Fischer | Published: May 24, 2009

Don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but my wife and I are posting to a blog about our organic gardening adventures: garden.perfectlyearthly.com. In addition to work reports summarizing the work we’re doing and bookkeeping to track how much we’re spending, we’re also posting recipies of things from our (or our friends’) garden and lots [...]

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Scala Scripting Challenge: What’s Equivalent to this Groovy?

By Robert Fischer | Published: May 20, 2009

Inspired by Scala being in the Scripting Language Bowl, I wanted to take a look at Scala as a scripting language. I’ve got this little Groovy code snippet: (System.in.text =~ /\b((\p{Lu}\p{Ll}+)+)\b/).each { println "I found: ${it[0]}" } When run, it looks like this: $ echo ” Foo bAr Baz robert Fischer alicia Weller ” | [...]

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