Monthly Archives: June 2009

Another Interview: NFJSOne

Lots of interesting podcasts over on the NFJSOne Podcast site, including one with yours truly. Here’s the summary of my interview from the NFJSOne podcast site: Robert and Jared talk about the wave of convention over configuration that’s sweeping the Java software, a little about GORM versus Hibernate, and how Grails is leading the way [...]

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Posted in No Fluff/G2X/AgileRx | 2 Comments

JQuery PeriodicalUpdater (AJAX long polling/server polling)

I’m working on an app that is using the JQuery JavaScript framework. Time came for a bit of AJAX long-polling (which I can no longer say without snickering thanks to WebDevGeekly), and so I went looking for a way to do that in jQuery: specifically, I wanted something like Prototype’s Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater, which has a nice [...]

Posted in Classic, JavaScript, Open Source | 104 Comments

Web Dev Radio/Book Announcement

I’ve been hinting at a new book for quite a while, but not really saying much about it. Well, Michael Kimsal got the scoop on my new book over at WebDev Radio: Episode 66: Robert Fischer on Groovy, Grails, GORM and more. I’ve added it to this blog’s podcast feed, too: you can subscribe to [...]

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Groovy version of Neal Ford’s JRuby “Recorder”

In Neal Ford’s JavaOne 2009 “‘Design Patterns’ for Dynamic Languages” talk1, he presented a record/playback object as an example of a decorator. He did so in JRuby, which is probably a good call since JRuby is more slide-friendly than Groovy (more on this later), but in presenting the recorder he said something in passing about [...]

Posted in Groovy, JavaOne | 5 Comments

Podcast Sample: “Out There Radio”/”Disinfo”

If you’re interested in conspiracy theories, fringe science, and the occult (and who isn’t?), you really should check out the archives over at Out There Radio, and Raymond, Joe, and Austin’s newest endeavor, the Disinfo.com Podcasts. They have lots of interesting interviews and news, and the best sampler of the new series is probably the [...]

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Posted in Politics, Sample Podcasts | 2 Comments
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