Monthly Archives: December 2009

The Sin of Intellectualism

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 12, 2009

Some navel gazing in the vein of Experience of a Freemason: Thoughts a Few Years In, this time about the nature of my faith and my path to Duke Divinity. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good. 1 Thessalonians, 5:21 From the most awesomely titled An Apology for the True Christian [...]

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Rats leaving the sinking ship

By Brian Hurt | Published: December 12, 2009

So, there has started to be a mini-trend of notable conservative bloggers suddenly discovering, to their shock and amazement, that Conservatism today is racist, homophobic, misogynistic, global-warming denying, irrational, anti-science, and hateful. Here’s Andrew Sullivan’s GBCW letter, and here’s from from Charles Johnson at LGF. I especially like the one from Little Green Footballs, because [...]

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Marc Palmer: “Do we need a commercial market for Grails Plugins?”

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 11, 2009

If you are a Grails developer who hasn’t read Marc Palmer’s blog post, “Do we need a commercial market for Grails Plugins?“, you need to do so. Now. I’ll wait. The crux of the problem is adequately described in Marc’s GraphJam-worthy graph: The problem is, this leads to a bunch of great ideas that are [...]

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setJDK/setGrails

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 11, 2009

I spend a lot of time bouncing between different versions of JDKs and different versions of Grails. To make my life easier, I’ve got these files in my bin directory. setJDK #!/bin/sh   cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions   CURJDK="`readlink CurrentJDK`" echo Current JDK version: $CURJDK   if [ "$1" == "" ]; then echo Installed versions: ls [...]

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Podcast Sample: Chillin’ with Lovespirals

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 1, 2009

Although my teenage-angst, KMFDM/PIG-idolizing self would hate to hear it, I’ve become quite a fan of downtempo and chillout music. Although I’m a big fan of Raleigh/Durham’s The Grooveblaster and Permanent4, undoubtedly my favorite artist is Lovespirals, so I was crazy excited when their new album Future Past was released. You can see my review [...]

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