Author Archives: Robert Fischer

Time for More Tor: How to Set It Up

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 11, 2011

It is looking like the US government is going to pass a bill which requires your ISP to track everything you do on the internet and store that information for 12 months: see here for more. This means that every website you visit and every plaintext password you send across the internet will be tracked. [...]

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“Statically Typed Groovy”? Bwuh? I’m confused.

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 10, 2011

Hamlet d’Arcy just posted on Groovy getting a static mode, apparently called “Grumpy”. I’m really confused about why Groovy is bothering. First of all, we have to be clear that a statically typed Groovy is going to have to do away with a lot of functionality. After all, this is totally legitimate and well-defined Groovy [...]

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My Experience Installing F# on OS-X

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 4, 2011

I’ve been working in .NET for a while now, but the time finally came when I no longer had to be working on a Microsoft workstation via VPN. This meant that I was free to start developing .NET on my Mac, and that meant starting with installing F#. I presumed I was going to have [...]

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Newly Minted: JavaCC/JJTree Plugin for Gradle

By Robert Fischer | Published: May 11, 2011

I used to have a hackish JavaCC plugin under my Gradle-Plugins project, but I have ported it over to the Compiler plugins infrastructure that I announced before, and also added JJTree as part of the mix. This new approach solves a myriad of annoying edge cases in the old JavaCC plugin. The biggest benefit of [...]

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“Chillcast” 5th Anniversary Compilation

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 18, 2011

If you haven’t discovered Anji Bee and the Chillcast, your life is now better. If you know Anji Bee and the Chillcast, then you should probably know she’s pulled together a one hour music compilation to celebrate the 5th anniversary of her excellent Chillcast. It’s one of these name-your-price deals (and “free” is acceptable), so [...]

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