Category Archives: Random Software Geekery

Hosting Maven Repos on Github

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Chas Emerick

Hosting Maven repos has gotten easier and easier over the years.  We’ve run the free version of Nexus for a couple of years now, which owns all the other options feature-wise as far as I can tell, and is a … Continue reading →

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Whoa, Peter Norvig used some of my code!

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Chas Emerick

I’m generally not one to be impressed by celebrity — you won’t catch me reading People or US Weekly, example.  However, this morning I noticed with a shimmer of glee that Peter Norvig used some code that I wrote years … Continue reading →

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Scala Makes Me Think

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Chas Emerick

(…or, “Oh, Dear, Wasn’t I Thinking Before?”) As my friends will attest, I really enjoy programming languages. I’m one of those language fetishists that talk about “expressiveness” and “concision”, and yes, I’m one of those very strange fellows who blurt … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Martin Fowler’s Domain Specific Languages Overview

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Chas Emerick

I’m way late in linking to this, but it’s worth it. Last October, a presentation by Martin Fowler from JAOO 2006 popped up on InfoQ (which does a great job of simulating the actual experience of being at the session … Continue reading →

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