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Re: Social Media Shirts: Limited Edition "This is My Profile Face"

Robert Fischer — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:50:43 -0000

WANT.

Robert Fischer's last blog post..Update: Just Got to Durham

Re: ADS Podcast On The Way – Your Advice Requested

Robert Fischer — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:43:29 -0000

I'm very interested in this podcast -- let me know how it's coming along and when it goes live.

The big trick is going to be keeping it engaging for more than 10 or 15 minutes. For a talky podcast, you really have to change up the format a bit to make it work: check out radio programs like "In the Loop"(1) and "Marketplace" (2) for examples that I like.

(1) http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/programs...

(2) http://marketplace.publicradio.org/

Re: Referrer Detector 4.0 is out!

Robert Fischer — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:43:46 -0000

I'm getting an error about needing to set allow_call_time_pass_reference, but I don't have access to my php.ini or the php_flag in .htacces. Can you refactor the code to avoid this deprecation? Until that happens, I'm afraid I have to disable your plugin (it throws ugly warnings all over my blog).

Re: Grails vs. Rails: Are we seriously still talking about this?!

Robert Fischer — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:29:19 -0000

Hey, thanks for the link, although the quote is a bit out of context, and I sound like a bit of an ass. Hartsock and I were discussing Grails vs. JRuby on Rails back at Barcamp, and he mentioned a desire to see a closer comparison of the two. I wasn't really at TriJUG to do that comparison, but I wanted to say a little something on it, and I thought he'd appreciate that.

While I understand the desire to call a truce, it is important for people to realize that Grails and JRuby on Rails are not the same thing. It is not six of one, half dozen of the other. There are fundamental differences in philosophy between Grails and Rails, and the advantages of Grails over Rails are such that there's no real competition, particularly when you're talking to an audience of enterprise Java developers. Yet the burgeoning cultural meme in the Java space seems to be that either framework is basically equivalent and Grails is basically just a Rails knock-off. Given the advantages I see in Grails, that's a frustrating meme to watch surface.

I also disagree that the conversation is unidirectional. Although I can't find the quote right now, the man himself -- DHH -- has been quoted as saying that Grails is fundamentally flawed. He's moderated that kind of talk somewhat: more recent quotes I've seen have acknowledged that Grails has a place in the ecosystem, but the general sense from the Rails community still seems pretty negative towards Grails. Which is actually too bad -- there's a lot that Rails community could learn from Grails (like Ruby is apparently learning "it" from Groovy).

Re: Grails vs. Rails: Are we seriously still talking about this?!

Robert Fischer — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:58:47 -0000

@Michael

+1 to the point Jason made to you on Monday. This debate is one that we are having as people who already have the revolutionary productivity improvement that comes from conventional development (vs. configuration development) and functionally-structured coding (vs. page-structured coding). Someone coming from a Struts 1 or Perl background and trying to decide between JRuby on Rails and Grails is really in a no-wrong-choice kind of situation. I've got reasons to believe that one of those choices is better than the other in the long term, but either of them is much better right now than where the Struts 1/Perl person currently is.

Re: Grails vs. Rails: Are we seriously still talking about this?!

Robert Fischer — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:21:51 -0000

@Graeme

Is it part of your contract to always capitalize the "S" in Spring, or is it just force of habit?

Re: What A Day.

Robert Fischer — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:33:18 -0000

I really looked forward to your Erlang presentation -- even bumped my OCaml presentation back later for it. I'll have to catch you in September!