Monthly Archives: March 2008

The Kid Sister Crypto Manifesto

By Brian Hurt | Published: March 16, 2008

The Kid Sister Crypto System Manifesto by Brian Hurt This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. 1. Statement of Purpose There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading [...]

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JConch 1.0 Released

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 15, 2008

Bet you didn’t see that coming! I’ve decided that I’m going to punt on the pipeline stuff and declare what I have for JConch to be the 1.0 version. I’m going to spend some quality time getting the system into Ivy, and then I’m going to declare JConch done until I hear otherwise. I’ve created [...]

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JConch 0.3 Released

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 14, 2008

(Since I and the update-bot are the entirity of the JConch Discussion Group, I’m announcing this here.) I just released JConch 0.3 over at the Google Code page for JConch (API here). This includes introducing the type-safe CacheMap, moving the old-school non-generic version over to ObjectCacheMap, and moving into functional Groovy land with the oh-so-succinct-in-usage [...]

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Exercising Dynamic Web Frameworks, or, How Do I Test These Friggin’ Controllers Anyway?

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 14, 2008

One of the things that has always fascinated me about dynamic languages is how you go about testing them. See, the trick is that when I write a closed implementation of some sort — whether it be a closed class or module — I’ve got some concept of the boundaries that my object’s state could [...]

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A Mathematician’s Lament

By Brian Hurt | Published: March 10, 2008

I want to share this article with everyone. In addition to being exceedingly well written and cogent, it also says things I’ve been trying to say for years- and makes me want to say things I hadn’t thought of before. Go read it, trust me. Unfortunately, this article made my mind want to metaphorically jump [...]

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