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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Another Interesting Thing For My Theoretical Podcast

By Robert Fischer | June 29th, 2008
From Citizen Astronomy, ScienceNews: From a scientific standpoint, Galaxy Zoo started paying dividends almost from day one. “This is not something [...]
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Bug Or Feature, You Decide: Groovy MetaClass Programming

By Robert Fischer | June 26th, 2008
Those Groovy adepts who want to skip to the punchline can check out my best-seller JIRA ticket: “ExpandoMetaClass sometimes, but [...]
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Music To Make Love To Your Old Code By

By Robert Fischer | June 25th, 2008
Edit: BTW, the title of this post is a reference to “Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady [...]
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Functional (Meta)?Programming Stunts for Ruby and Groovy (and a Little Perl)

By Robert Fischer | June 24th, 2008
After I learned OCaml, my coding mindset was totally distorted. I started writing Java code that looked like this: [...]
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Water Ice on Mars!

By Robert Fischer | June 20th, 2008
Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day [...]
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