Monthly Archives: October 2008

Exiting The REPL In Clojure

Whenever I’m learning a new language, it always seems like it’s the little things that drive me mad. With that in mind, I’m going to try and post fixes to the little things as I make my way through Clojure. To that point, I rapidly got tired of closing down the command window and starting …

October 30, 2008 – 8:51 pm | By Scooter | Posted in Programming | Tagged , | Comments (3)

RIP, Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman died yesterday at the age of 83. He was a masterful storyteller of the West, famous for his tales of the Navajo reservation. I enjoyed reading his books, often times handed down to me from my grandfather and father. He wrote stories about the mysticism of the Navajos that didn’t rely on blood …

October 27, 2008 – 8:50 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Literature | Comments (5)

Live Search Seems Pretty Broken

So after seeing a very odd spike in traffic to my blog today regarding Crossfit, I went to Live Search to see why quite a few people were finding my humble corner of the tubes. As it turns out, if you search for “crossfit training” using Live Search, I’m number four in the result list …

October 27, 2008 – 2:35 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Technology | Comments (0)

Google Is Starting To Scare Me

I wrote a post this morning at 11:10 AM detailing getting Clojure set up on my system and I briefly mentioned that I would probably try both Vim and Komodo as editors. At 3:39 PM, someone had come to my site from Google using the keywords “clojure komodo”. I don’t think I’m ever going to …

October 26, 2008 – 5:55 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Technology | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Getting Clojure Highlighting With Vim On Windows

Toralf Wittner wrote a good syntax file for Clojure but I had a hell of a time getting it to work on Windows, mostly because I’m not very smart and/or I didn’t bother to read the documentation for Vim. So sue me. Regardless, if you want to use Vim to edit Clojure scripts on Windows, …

October 26, 2008 – 5:35 pm | By Scooter | Posted in Programming | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Getting Clojure Installed On A Windows Machine

This is mostly a public service announcement, I didn’t find a good list of requirements anywhere else. Yes, I know I must be insane to be trying to half-ass learn another language but what else would I do on Sunday mornings? There’s no football and the alternative is hard manual labor in the garden. Shudder. …

October 26, 2008 – 11:10 am | By Scooter | Posted in Programming | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Friday Cat Blogging Open Thread

What’s your catnip?

October 24, 2008 – 8:03 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Open Thread, Random | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Launching A Shuttle

When agile just won’t do.

October 23, 2008 – 5:52 pm | By Scooter | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Wells Fargo Chairman Prefers To Save His Own Ass

Bloomberg is reporting that Wells Fargo Chairman Richard Kovacevich prefers the latest plan from the US to invest directly in banks through stock purchases over the original plan to buy up toxic assets from troubled banks. Of course he prefers this plan, it’s the one that works best for him as the CEO of a …

October 22, 2008 – 10:45 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics | Tagged | Comments (0)

Give Me An Assertion Vasily. One Assertion Only, Please

I was working through some broken unit tests this morning for the project I’m currently on and the second one in my list looked like this: [TestMethod] public void SelectTest() { Item item = session.SelectSingle(a => a.SkuNo == _item.SkuNo); Assert.IsTrue(item.Id > 0); Assert.AreEqual(item.Id, _item.Id); Assert.AreEqual(item.IsAutoReplenished, _item.IsAutoReplenished); Assert.AreEqual(item.Status, _item.Status); Assert.AreEqual(item.MaintenanceLevel, _item.MaintenanceLevel); Assert.AreEqual(item.Description, _item.Description); Assert.AreEqual(item.Type, _item.Type); Assert.IsTrue(item.LastAdjustmentDate.HasValue); …

October 20, 2008 – 10:27 am | By Scooter | Posted in Programming, Random | Tagged , | Comments (3)