Avi Interview
Checkout this interview with Avi Bryant (Seaside and Dabble creator). It's a shame that the sound quality isn't better, but there is some great insight buried in the garble.
View ArticleFree Phish
Phish has announced that they are going to start releasing video downloads. They are offering a free download from their legendary 1995 NYE show. This is a perfect example of why they had to call it...
View ArticleDebugging in Seaside
I've created a short (3min) video showing how you can deal with a stack trace while developing a Seaside application. One thing to note is that most of this power and flexibility comes from the...
View ArticleFeedBurner set up
I've created an account through FeedBurner. I use the free version of Blogger. It only supports atom feeds. Fine, no big deal. That feed is still there, but if you use this feed, then you will get an...
View ArticleExcellent Post on Common XP Questions
Darren Hobbs has a great write up of answers to questions that inevitably come up when adopting XP. My favorite quote is the last line, "Code is clay, not marble. Or at least it should be." It is a...
View ArticleQuit posting Dvorak on /.
Exhibit ZZZZZ∞I don't even think he believes this tripe. I wish I could make a living posting complete crap. Maybe Gartner is hiring?
View ArticleNeighborhood victory!
My neighborhood has been involved in very heated debate over a Conservation overlay for the past year. This is basically a light version of a Historic District. Our councilman took a survey last Spring...
View ArticleMetric time (Who needs sleep?)
Does anybody remember the SNL skit about converting to metric time, 100 hour days, 100 days in a month, 10 months a year. The solution was government subsidized speed during waking hours and Quaaludes...
View ArticleCongratulations to DabbleDB
DabbleDB won Best of Show and Make It Easy categories at the Under the Radar conference. This is well deserved recognition. DabbleDB is a fantastic product with a very clean interface and exceptional...
View ArticleCroquet 1.0 beta is here
From David Smith's blog. Find out more at http://www.opencroquet.org.You can view some movies from Mark McCahill's Croquet-Bento blog here.Very cool.
View ArticleSophie - Squeak App
Sophie is an example of a nice looking Squeak app, a true rarity. It appears to be using Tweak and I think some custom widgets. It's been a while since I looked at Tweak so I'm not sure how much is the...
View ArticlePzizz
From MacZOT:MacZOT.com Fans want Pzizz because 'According to the National Sleep Foundation, sleep deprivation and its effect on work performance may be costing U.S. employers some $18 billion each year...
View ArticlePLEASE READ, American jailed in Nicaragua
This is a childhood friend of one of my friends. This has received almost no U.S. press coverage, with the exception of the Wall Street Journal. Please help get the word out....
View ArticleWhat I look for in a programming language
Through a series of posts, I stumbled upon this little gem by Ralph Johnson:Some people like languages with a lot of features. I prefer simple languages. Smalltalk makes "constructor" be a convention....
View ArticleiPhone SDK, Ubuntu 7.10, Leopard Oct 26th, ...
It's like my newsreader is stuck in an infinite loop.
View ArticleNew Seaside Tutorial
If you haven't tried Seaside out, you no longer have an excuse.http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorialIt's a good idea to get up to speed so that you can enjoy GLASS when it becomes...
View ArticleOOPSLA '08 - Nashville!!
OOPSLA has long been on my conference todo list. Since it will come here next year, I won't have an excuse for not going.
View ArticleIf Steve Yegge were really talking to a young programmer...
...then I hope he wouldn't recommend Javascript (or ES4)! It may suck less than Java, but come on. To any young programmer daring for greatness, I have 3 recommendations. Learn Lisp.Learn...
View ArticleAmen, Brother
Dynamic Languages: Should the Tools Suck?I'm tired of hearing "Ruby is the new Smalltalk" (even from Kent Beck!!) I prefer "Smalltalk, it's like Ruby with tools."Here's something I was playing around...
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