The Call of Chrismathulu

R.J. Lorimer — Fri, 7 Nov 2008 06:38:54 -0800

Well, as of 11/6, the two “light rock” stations in Kansas City have switched to Christmas music full time. That pretty much guarantees two months of mediocre music (which is not new for these stations) with what seems like 6 songs to choose between (which is a few less than the other 10 months).

Getting True Java Classes in JRuby

R.J. Lorimer — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:41:51 -0700

This is an interesting thing I ran across when dealing with JRuby 1.1.4 and Swing - some of this may be just my lack of understanding of some of the Java integration features, some of it may be lingering bugs in the Java integration, and some of it may just be what has to be done to make it work; anyway - here goes.