Monthly Archives: April 2008

Two Interesting Events: Scala and a Story Slam

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 23, 2008

Two interesting events that my Minnesota-based readers might be interested in: Ted Neward will present on Scala at OTUG: Date: Tuesday May 20, 2008 Time: 5:00 PM Location: 3M Auditorium, Owens Science Hall University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN Free food served afterward – Please RSVP to web@otug.org Abstract – The Java platform has [...]

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History Meme

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 17, 2008

robert$ history 1000 | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head 115 ls 113 cd 52 vi 33 ssh 20 make 14 grails 10 ocaml 10 less 10 find 9 rm Meh. No great surprises there.

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Do the math…

By Brian Hurt | Published: April 15, 2008

Just wanted to post one quick comment about the “Huge” Brazillian oil field recently discovered. From the article: A deep-water exploration area could contain as much as 33 billion barrels of oil, an amount that would nearly triple Brazil’s reserves and make the offshore bloc the world’s third-largest known oil reserve, a top energy official [...]

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7 Actually Useful Things You Didn’t Know Static Typing Could Do: An Introduction for the Dynamic Language Enthusiast

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 14, 2008

One of the things that has consistently been difficult in the whole dynamic typing/static typing conversation is that people don’t seem to understand what a real static typing language can do. The dynamic typing vs. static typing conversation seems to be Java’s type system vs. Ruby’s type system, which simply isn’t fair. So, in the spirit of advancing discourse and helping people understand why I enjoy Ocaml so much, let me present “7 Actually Useful Things You Didn’t Know Static Typing Could Do”.

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Just Took Over Maintaining CocanWiki

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 13, 2008

Thanks to Jeremy Chatfield of Merjis, I’m now the maintainer of CocanWiki. Just got the OK to put it up on the Ocaml Forge: “CocanWiki“. Still waiting on Jane Street‘s decision on whether Cloud Proxy made it into their Ocaml Summer Project. I don’t want to start hacking on that without the students, assuming they’re [...]

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