Enfranchised Mind

Open Source Drop: GitHub as a Maven Repo for Gradle, a JSON parser library and client, and JavaCC Plugin for Gradle

Robert Fischer — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:19:22 +0000

This is an announcement of a bunch of open source code that I’ve just released. Using GitHub as a Maven Repository for Gradle If you’re using Gradle for your JVM builds (and you should be) and GitHub for your open source project infrastructure (and you should be), then you might be pleasantly surprised to know [...] Related posts:

What programming language should I use?

Brian Hurt — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:56:52 +0000

My answer to the question: what programming language should I use? Also answers the question: when should I use programming language X? The above is, obviously, IMHO. And if your favorite programming language isn’t represented here, feel free to assume I’m just fundamentally an evil person. CommentsFebruary 22, 2012, Guest1 wrote: Haha. That is indeed [...] Related posts:

Gradle, Lift, and Google App Engine

Robert Fischer — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:34:15 +0000

I’m getting back into the game a little bit, and I decided to take a look at Lift for web development. After an initially promising experience, I became totally unhappy with Eclipse (it began forgetting I had Google App Engine libraries on the classpath after every clean). So I moved back to the command line. [...] Related posts:

Back Again to There: A Nontheistic Statement of Faithiness

Robert Fischer — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:47:42 +0000

[Editor's Note: This is a follow-up to There and Back Again. If you haven't read that post, start there (including the comments) and then come back.] I finally figured out what was bothering me. While driving to the Science Online 2012 open mic night and listening to Jon Watts’ Lifted Up, I suddenly had an [...] Related posts:

There and Back Again: A Journey Into and Out of Faith

There and Back Again: A Journey Into and Out of Faith

Robert Fischer — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:00:18 +0000

For the last few years, I have been a seminary student. Although hardly "evangelical", I entered seminary with a strong faith in a benevolent God that I attached to Christianity. At the end of last semester, however, that all collapsed, and I am left as a kind of weak atheist. The post mortem of my faith is a complicated narrative: there is no simple cause of death. Related posts:

“Speaking of Faith” on L’Arche