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Monthly Archives: May 2008

In the Media Again: Pioneer Press on Texting and Driving

By Robert Fischer | May 23rd, 2008
Cite. Nothing interesting — just reporting that I text and drive on occasion. And (randomly) that I don’t try to [...]
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A Realization on Maintainability

By Robert Fischer | May 23rd, 2008
In a conversation lamenting the delay in conversion between academics and practice, @mfeathers on Twitter said: We’ll see. I think [...]
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Time for a Little Golf: Number Guessing Game

By Robert Fischer | May 23rd, 2008
Write a game which randomly generates a number between 0 (inclusive) and 100 (exclusive), and then prompts the user for [...]
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Hpricot Does Namespaces?

By Robert Fischer | May 22nd, 2008
Seems like I was a bit hasty in my condemnation of Ruby XML parsing: Hpricot apparently handles namespaces okay through [...]
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I Can’t Do Nothing Anymore: The Nonviolent Peaceforce

By Robert Fischer | May 20th, 2008
I regularly pick up podcasts that take on wildly different viewpoints, because I regularly find that if you look at [...]
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