Monthly Archives: August 2007

Another Person Bit by Java Exposing the Implementation through Inheritance

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 13, 2007

Brian Pontarelli encounters the same ugliness in the Java API that I talked about back in Implementation Exposure Through Inheritance. It’s a good read, and goes into more detail than I did about the most glaring and chafing example: Java’s “Properties” class, which is-a Hashtable so that the developer didn’t have to rework “Map”.

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Presbyterian Church (USA) Podcast

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 9, 2007

An interesting podcast, for those either within our without the PC(USA): Decently and in Order. Engaging and entertaining with deep and thoughtful analysis. It’s like the “Car Talk” of PC(USA) polity. Even those outside of the PC(USA) and outside of the church could have a lot to gain from the podcast — the issues and [...]

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A Monad Tutorial for Ocaml

By Brian Hurt | Published: August 6, 2007

A ‘newbie’, in Haskell, is someone who hasn’t yet implemented a compiler. They’ve only written a monad tutorial. -Pseudonymn With that quote in mind, I’ve decided to become a Haskell newbie and write myself a monad tutorial. This has a value, no matter how bad the monad tutorial might be- it’s as much about explaining [...]

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“Speaking of Faith” on L’Arche

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 6, 2007

This is one of the most amazing stories I’ve ever heard. Given my post-modern and intellectual approach to religion, it is easy for me to see God in academic terms: as though knowing God is dependent upon intellectual analysis, like He is one of the realities revealed within a mathematical proof. It’s an easy trap, [...]

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Capitulation

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 5, 2007

I’ve been looking a bit more into DailyKos, because I was surprised by some of the diaries resulting from the I-35W Bridge Collapse (see previous). I’ve continued to be surprised — and impressed — with the condemnations of the Democrats for their shameful showing with the FISA amendment. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/5/83958/82889 I know what a lot of [...]

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