http://blog.secosoft.net Matt Secoske's intermittent ramblings on software and life Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:10:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was perusing my favorite online email service just now and saw this red banner blazing across the top of my mail: My first reaction was "Holy shit they detected Firebug?!?!" My next reaction was "ok, lets see how we fix this". So I clicked the link. It ... http://blog.secosoft.net/2007/10/30/firebug-makes-gmail-slow/ The slides for my NFJS talk "Comparing Java and Groovy", along with source code are now online in the Presentations section. http://blog.secosoft.net/2007/08/04/comparing-java-to-groovy-nfjs-talk-online/ Too funny http://blog.secosoft.net/2007/07/27/wysiwtf/ I have put the slides and some code from my OSCON 2007 talk online. Had a lot of fun giving the talk. There is a lot of interest in Groovy out there! Thanks to everyone who came to the talk for the wonderful questions! http://blog.secosoft.net/2007/07/26/implementing-dsls-in-groovy-oscon-slides-online/ I have been doing a lot of digging into Groovy and DSLs lately, getting ready for my OSCON talk next week. The Groovy language has great built-in support for creating DSLs. Along with its dynamic nature, Groovy has the "use" keyword for working with categories, and coming in ... http://blog.secosoft.net/2007/07/20/groovy-annotations-aspects/ I'm trying to catch up to my overflowing Google reader, and have just seen Uncle Bob's posting on XML "The Hidiocy of XML Languages": Look, writing in XML is hideous. It’s wordy, it’s error-prone, it’s arcane, it’s redundant, it’s redundant, it’s redundant, it’s… HIDEOUS! To make matters worse, we have been ... http://blog.secosoft.net/2007/05/30/uncle-bob-on-xml/ Reverend Al Sharpton, former presidential candidate (among many other things) and Christopher Hitchens, author of "God is not Great" had a very interesting discussion a couple of nights ago. A partial (though fairly accurate) transcript is available here, with the full audio recording available here. Its 1.5 hours ... http://blog.secosoft.net/2007/05/09/god-is-not-great-debate/ I put my InfoTec 2007 presentations online last night. If you don't want to hear about how much fun I had giving them, here is the link. My first talk was a 4 hour "Introduction to Ruby on Rails". It had a decent turnout, and was a lot of ... http://blog.secosoft.net/2007/04/20/infotec-2007-presentations-are-online/ The other day I needed to remove a mess of .svn directories from a project as I moved it from my personal box (using svn as the soure control) to the client's source control system. This is a fairly frequent task, so attempting to be a "productive programmer" I ... http://blog.secosoft.net/2007/04/04/simple-groovy-script-to-remove-svn-directories/ Earlier today I put GroovyQuiz.com online, along with its first quiz (Anyone up for a game of Life?) It amazing to see the response its getting already... there are a number of sites linking to it already (Thank you aboutGroovy.com and groovyblogs.org... you both rock!). And I've got a number ... http://blog.secosoft.net/2007/03/30/groovyquizcom-is-finally-here/