Monthly Archives: November 2009

My Own Personal Dark Side of the Rainbow

By Brian Hurt | Published: November 30, 2009

Watching the Paris chase scene from “The Bourne Identity” to The Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz”. Start the music at about 53:40 into the movie, so that “Let’s Go!” happens just as they’re backing out of the parking place. It works. That is all.

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Oh, Gradle, You Made My Heart Skip a Beat

By Robert Fischer | Published: November 27, 2009

As I just mentioned, I’ve been working on some Gradle plugins. I’ve been using Gradle in my polyglot programming book, and there’s a stunt (namely, running Cucumber in a Java/Groovy/Scala build) that I’d like the user to be able to do without too much hassle. The easiest way is to say, “Hey, use this plugin [...]

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Announcing Gradle-Plugins

By Robert Fischer | Published: November 25, 2009

A lot of people know that I have contributed a lot of Grails plugin work, even if my take on contributing is somewhat controversial. Well, I’m continuing on with that approach of plugin contributions, but now for Gradle, the world’s most awesome build system. You can check out the plugins at http://github.com/RobertFischer/gradle-plugins/. Be sure to [...]

Posted in Groovy, Open Source | 2 Comments

Hard Drive Hygene: Downloads Zero

By Robert Fischer | Published: November 24, 2009

I recently blew my computer away and re-built everything from scratch. IA lot of cruft had built up, and instead of trying to scour my computer, I just punted and started all over. One of the things I’ve done is adopted a kind of “Downloads Zero” approach (akin to “Inbox Zero“): I had built up [...]

Posted in Classic, New Frontiers | 9 Comments

My question on Go

By Brian Hurt | Published: November 22, 2009

Algol-2009 aka Google Go causes Brian thoughts on systems programming languages and how to apply optimizations.

Posted in Classic, Programming Language Punditry | 18 Comments

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