Howardism Collection My collected thoughts. Inspired by a cup of tea and an absorbing book. Flamed bright by hubris. Howard Abrams http://www.howardabrams.com 2008-05-15T11:36:53-07:00 http://www.howardism.org/ Copyright 2008, Howard Abrams (Creative Commons Licensing) Quickie Update...

Been working on a groovy little script to make it as easy to publish new items to my "home" page as it is to twitter.

Hrm. Note to self. Need to integrate the dictionary and Apple services to this Swing text area. Perhaps I should bypass swing altogether and use the AWT or SWT widget set. Dunno … I would have guessed it would take care of it all by itself.

 http://www.howardism.org/home.html 2008-05-15T10:04:40-07:00 A Book for Nats 2008-05-15T11:35:57-07:00 2008-05-15T12:00:00-07:00 http://www.howardism.org/Philosophy/Book_for_Nats.html I think it is time to write a book about the great mysteries of life... anyone want to help? Languagistical Musings 2008-05-12T03:06:18-07:00 2008-05-10T12:00:00-07:00 http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Other/Fusion_of_Languages.html What if we could fuse the best features of functional languages and object-oriented languages? That's what I thought! Useful Taglibs for Grails 2008-04-09T02:12:46-07:00 2008-04-10T12:00:00-07:00 http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Groovy/Useful_Taglibs.html A couple of helpful Groovy tags for GSP files in Grails Heaven is No Place for People 2008-04-10T02:12:12-07:00 2008-04-07T12:00:00-07:00 http://www.howardism.org/Philosophy/Religion/Heaven_not_for_People.html Humans are not happy without constant struggling for improvement. And once they obtain their desire, are they happy? No, they're bored. Why I Like Groovy 2008-03-28T12:26:35-07:00 2008-03-28T12:00:00-07:00 http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Groovy/Why_I_Like_Groovy.html A short code example of why Groovy is so nice. When Do We Disbelieve 2008-04-16T10:54:56-07:00 2008-03-27T12:00:00-07:00 http://www.howardism.org/Philosophy/Religion/When_to_Disbelieve.html When is a good time for children to grow up and stop believing in fairies, Santa Claus, and Easter zombies?