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Fighting Obsolescence: t’salon

t’salon look over my shoulder My friend Ed Tanguay said to me by email last week that “we all feel we are in danger of growing obsolete at the rapid changes in our industry”. By “we”, he was referring to … Continue reading

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Publinksky, a Chrome Extension; Second Thoughts

A year ago, I heard from a colleague about a competition Google was hosting to develop new extensions for the Chrome browser. Google had recently released the API to develop extensions, and they thought the competition might jump-start the process … Continue reading

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Paradigm Shifts: January/February 2011

Nowadays I mostly just type phrases in for Google searches, like “hosting static content on github”. No more reformulating my queries in a semi-string “searchese” language. I actually go out of my way to write (mostly) grammatically correct English phrases … Continue reading

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Interview with Alan Kay

I came across a series of interviews on YouTube with Alan Kay, who co-created Smalltalk at Xerox PARC, as well as Squeak. The interview is in very good quality both in picture and sound, and Kay is given extensive time … Continue reading

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40 years and going strong

InfoQ has made available a video of a talk, “Forty Years of Fun with Computers”, by Dan Ingalls, who co-created Smalltalk at Xerox PARC, Squeak a few years later, and most recently, the Lively Kernel, a programming environment which runs … Continue reading

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On the line: 210111

InfoQ has become a pretty good resource of late for videos of conference presentations and talks, as well as interviews. The collection and archives on InfoQ is worth browsing, but I wanted to highlight some really good videos that have … Continue reading

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On the line: 020809

Got a copy of Masterminds of Programming, which has a silly title, but which includes pretty thorough, and very interesting, interviews with a number of designers of well-known programming languages, including: C++, Objective-C, ML, Haskell, Java, C#, BASIC, Awk, Perl, … Continue reading

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On the line: 240709

Reading Programming Clojure, great introduction to the Clojure programming language. Nice example of using Clojure to sweep a set of IP addresses to see who’s running SSH Write your Maven POM using YAML via the impressive Yamlpom plugin. Includes converter … Continue reading

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On what Open Source is, and is not

(accidentally deleted this post; re-adding under the same date) Just found this post on a discussion forum for an open source project called HandBrake. The author is one of the HandBrake developers, as far as I can tell. A must-read. … Continue reading

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Avoiding the Next Big Language

I was just listening to a podcast introducing the F# language, and what struck me was that the two folks being interviewed–Chris Smith and Dustin Campbell–didn’t talk at any time about F# being the next big language for the CLR. … Continue reading

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