Monthly Archives: October 2008

Reading the Dictionary Is Fun

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Joey Gibson

While waiting for my lunch to cook today, I picked up my son’s Oxford Desk Dictionary to look up a word. I had the word “fop” in my head, and I wanted to make certain that I was correct in … Continue reading →

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Greek and Spanish Simultaneously: Is It Possible?

Posted on October 26, 2008 by Joey Gibson

Around April in 2006, I started learning Greek, because I wanted to be able to read the source materials of the New Testament (notice I didn’t say the “original” Greek). I worked on this pretty steadily until late 2007. At … Continue reading →

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Dear Apple: Some Java Love, Please?

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I love your machines. Truly, I do. Back in 1988 I bought a toaster-model Mac SE, with one megabyte of RAM, and I loved it. It only had a nine inch, black-and-white screen, and I loved it. For various reasons, … Continue reading →

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Groovy Sql Closure Examples

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Joey Gibson

My post about closures last week generated quite a bit of traffic and comments, both positive and negative. I decided to followup on that post with a few examples of how to add a method that I believe is missing from Groovy’s … Continue reading →

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An Asteroid’s A-Comin’

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Joey Gibson

At the bowling alley tonight, after discussing the stock market for a while, my friend says to me, “Did you hear about the asteroid that’s supposed to hit us tomorrow?” I thought he was kidding. So I whipped out my … Continue reading →

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Why I Love Closures

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I’ve been a big fan of closures for years. I was first introduced to them in Smalltalk, where they were just called blocks. Ruby has them and also calls them blocks. Java does not have them, though there are proposals … Continue reading →

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