I'm going to be speaking at the No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) tour this weekend in Austin, Texas. Here are my sessions: two on concurrency, two on GORM/Grails. This is my first "full load" conference—I'm basically talking all day Sunday! Should b

Lots of interesting podcasts over on the NFJSOne Podcast site, including one with yours truly. Here's the summary of my interview from the NFJSOne podcast site: Robert and Jared talk about the wave of convention over configuration that's sweeping the Jav

I've been hinting at a new book for quite a while, but not really saying much about it. Well, Michael Kimsal got the scoop on my new book over at WebDev Radio: Episode 66: Robert Fischer on Groovy, Grails, GORM and more. I've added it to this blog's pod

If you're interested in conspiracy theories, fringe science, and the occult (and who isn't?), you really should check out the archives over at Out There Radio, and Raymond, Joe, and Austin's newest endeavor, the Disinfo.com Podcasts. They have lots of in

Scott Davis interviewed me for the ThirstyHead News Show. My glasses are reflecting like crazy and my skin tone is about the same as the wall behind it, but the conversation (predominantly about Grails persistence) is interesting (especially once I loose

While at JavaOne, I sat down with Eric Klein and David Bryant of the This Ain’t Your Dad’s Java podcast. Eric is VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and David is Sr. Director of Java Marketing at Sun, so we talked about what brought them to doing a

Looks like my Web Dev Geekly #13 appearance wasn't a one night stand: I'm on Web Dev Geekly #14, too. Clocking in at a whopping 78 minutes, we discuss messed up British keyboards, functional testing approaches, the future of FireFlox plugins, why iPhone

I didn't post anything on this before, but In the Loop hosted a Story Slam in May 2008, with the topic of "Achille's Heel". I got up and spoke, and while I didn't make the radio edit, I did make the bonus track, which I'm now sharing with the podcast fee

Okay, no, this blog is not turning into me just pimping me all the time. But with No Fluff (http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/categories/events/no-fluff/) cranking up and my blogging hiatus (http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/roberts-summer-2009-hiatu

This blog post is mainly aimed at the functional programmer readership of this blog. There is a video out there on the web from a recent conference that brings up a number of good points, that I think needs to be more widely disseminated in the functiona