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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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 (4)

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 Brett Bim | 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 Brett Bim | 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); Assert.AreEqual(item.LastAdjustmentDate.Value.Date, …

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