Monthly Archives: March 2010

Fall 2010 School Schedule

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 29, 2010

My tentative Duke Divinity School schedule in Fall 2010.

Ruby Summer of Code (RSOC)?

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 23, 2010

@Headius tweeted: “Plan A: Try to get GSoC to reconsider Rails org’s application. Plan B: Organize a Ruby Summer of Code.” Since Plan A apparently hasn’t worked, maybe Plan B will be go?

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`log.debug { "$toStringMe only if necessary!" }`

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 19, 2010

I’ve just updated the @WithLog AST transform for Groovy to defer evaluation of GStrings in logging messages.

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Hash tables revisted

By Brian Hurt | Published: March 17, 2010

Just a quick note, I wanted to point this paper out to everyone here. Basically, the author demonstrates a denial of service attack using engineered hash collisions to force the programs into worst case behavior situations, just like I commented way back then. And I’m not sure how much faith I’d put into a new [...]

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