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Ashlar Infrastructure is in Play

by Robert Fischer

Ashlar‘s infrastructure is now live. Basically, we have a compiler and a runtime (ashlarc and ashlar, respectively). Ashlar compiles code [...]

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by Robert Fischer

You want to know something that is really an abomination against the Christian way of life? Borrowing and lending money for interest.

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Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL

Unique to the popular Grails web framework is its architecture. While other frameworks are built from the ground up, Grails leverages existing technology.  Grails uses Hibernate to build its GORM (Grails Object Relational Mapping) persistence layer.

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  • Ashlar and Assumptions

    by Robert Fischer

    In my free time this summer, as a counter-balance to the pastoral/ministerial work I was doing, I’ve cranked on a programming language called “Ashlar”. It’s still just getting started, but a big hurdle has been crossed: the runtime is up and running, and the compiler infrastructure is in place.

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  • So soon we forget

    by Brian Hurt

    The first thing to remember is that the main difference between what we did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and what we did to Tokyo, or what Japan did to China (see “The Rape of Nanking”) or the Philippines, or what we did to Dresden, or what Germany did to Coventry or Leningrad or Moscow, or what Russia did to Berlin, etc., etc. was how cheap it was.

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  • Steve Yegge is an idiot

    by Brian Hurt

    And to think, I used to have respect for the man. Then he goes and posts this pile of fetid dingo kidneys. I’m going to explain in detail why ditching private (and, by extension, public) is bad. Obviously this needs to be spelled out, because a lot of programmers- including Steve Yegge – don’t get it.

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  • And….fail.

    by Robert Fischer

    Okay, so this is some serious failage on a website.

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  • Dear deficit “hawks”: bite me

    by Brian Hurt

    Here’s the problem I have with the recent furor over the deficit and the debt: my long term memory still works.

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