Monthly Archives: May 2008

Okay, Grails, That Was Cute: Taglibs

By Robert Fischer | Published: May 14, 2008

So, a while back I was impressed by Rails routing. It was a nice little surprise which came out of left field to impress me: I love it when frameworks do that. Grails just had its time — taglibs. Now, because of the pain of JSP tag libraries, I’ve avoided anything that sounded anything like [...]

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My Story on “In the Loop”

By Robert Fischer | Published: May 14, 2008

I got up at the last Story Slam that In the Loop did. If you’re interested in hearing it, check out the MP3 here (mirrored here). I got bounced to the bonus reel, which shows the quality of the people they had show up. If you want to hear more of this stuff, check out [...]

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Ruby + XML: A Serious Question That Only Sounds Facetious

By Robert Fischer | Published: May 12, 2008

How does one actually do real, full-bodied XML parsing in Ruby?

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Digg Away

By Robert Fischer | Published: May 11, 2008

I’ve implemented WP Super Cache, because WP Cache just wasn’t cutting it. It’s actually caching pages, and provides all kinds of other high-traffic support. So hopefully we’ll survive our next Digging/Reditting/Slashdotting/whatever.

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How Ocaml Can Be Improved

By Brian Hurt | Published: May 7, 2008

A series of suggestions about how the OCaml programming language (esp. its standard library) can be improved.

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