Monthly Archives: September 2009

JQuery PeriodicalUpdater Updated Again

By Robert Fischer | Published: September 29, 2009

Thanks to some excellent conversation over here, the JQuery PeriodicalUpdater is back in play, and now with change detection.

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Polyglot Programming in NFJS Magazine

By Robert Fischer | Published: September 27, 2009

Just FYI, I have an article in the September No Fluff, Just Stuff Magazine. It’s entitled Polyglot Programming: The Basic Nuts and Bolts and subtitled: Wherein high talk and grandiose visions of a world where all JVM languages can coexist in peace and harmony give way to the gritty ugliness of real practice, and Gant [...]

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Updated GORM Labs and JQuery PeriodicalUpdater

By Robert Fischer | Published: September 26, 2009

I’ve just released an update to GORM Labs and JQuery PeriodicalUpdater (which was introduced in this post). While the modifications to GORM Labs were improvements, the JQuery PeriodicalUpdater update ended up being a punt on some functionality which I thought was successfully implemented. Specifically, the problem with JQuery PeriodicalUpdater is that I can’t seem to [...]

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Economic Heresies

By Brian Hurt | Published: September 20, 2009

Right. I’ve gotten ticked off enough it’s time for me to tick other people off. Welcome to a grab-bag of economic truths, at least some of which will tick most people off. Republicans and conservatives should be especially wary. You have been warned. Not only am I not worried about goring your scared cow, I’m [...]

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1024 by 2012!

By Brian Hurt | Published: September 14, 2009

This will be a short blog post, but I just wanted to point out this article from El Reg on the future roadmap of the Sparc CPU. Especially check out the graphic associated with that article. Here we have Sun/Oracle’s roadmap for the Sparc processor- and we see that by 2012, Cascade Falls will have [...]

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