Monthly Archives: October 2009

“Holy Crap, That Worked!”: Running JRuby/Cucumber from Gradle

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 31, 2009

I’m working on some code for my book and I’m trying out Swinger, which is a Cucumber library for Swing. I wanted to integrate it into my build (which is Gradle), but was running into issues. The problem is that I was pulling JRuby-Embed from the central Maven repo, which meant that I could only [...]

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Two Applications Everyone Should Be Running

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 31, 2009

If you’ve got a computer and it’s got some spare clock cycles/bandwidth/memory (which is almost certainly true), then you really should be running the following programs. This is “should” in the sense of “you should feed the poor”. Tor — This system provides anonymity online. Even if you don’t use it yourself, running a server [...]

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Help with Spring Courses?

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 28, 2009

Trying to decide what courses to take this Spring for my M.Div here at Duke. Here are my options: PARISH 120: Food, Eating, and the Life of Faith: This course will be an examination of food systems and eating practices in the light of Christian teaching. Our aim will be to develop a theological framework [...]

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TSA should be renamed CYA

By Brian Hurt | Published: October 27, 2009

or maybe TFC: Totally Effin’ Clueless. So, I’m reading the TSA’s response to the recent XKCD, and it managed to do something surprising: lower my estimation of the TSA. See, I used to think the TSA was a bunch of humorless bureaucrats who were doing the whole security-theater drill as a huge CYA. Classic “Yes [...]

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New Version of Autobase: Payware?

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 27, 2009

Since nobody’s come out of the woodwork to fund the Autobase Grails plugin, but that plugin desperately needs a new version and extensions, so I’m considering working on it over the holidays and releasing it early next year as payware, or perhaps under a GPL/payware scheme a la Zed Shaw’s GPL approach or Clojure’s use [...]

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