A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog
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Planet Building
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m rather taken with Planet Planet, the old-skool Python based RSS aggregator that outputs flat HTML. I used it to build my wonderful Future Manufacturing river. And I want to use it for more things. So I’ve created a small script to make installing Planet ultra-easy on a…
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Walled River
Apple join the war against RSS. We need to defend the principle of a platform independent / open feed of news items from all the companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google and Apple who have seen the future as feeds insided their own proprietory walled “gardens”. Not sure if a garden is the right metaphor for…
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World Outline Screencast
Nice screencast from Dave Winer showing where the World Outliner (the successor to the OPML Editor) is at. Reminds me of GeekWeaver of course, though obviously slicker (and more specialised).
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Artistic Filofax
Some links on ThoughtStorms
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Mentoring In The Large
Dave Winer has a great aspiration for programmers to engage with long-projects that involve a teaching role.
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Command 'n' Cursor
I’ve been travelling with my trusty (but ageing) eeepc netbook this last week. There’s much to love about it but it’s starting to feel slow in comparison with my other machine. Increasingly when I use the netbook I try to get away with doing things in a ctrl-alt-f1 shell without logging in to the GUI…
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Show Your RSS
Dave Winer reminds us to help people find our RSS feeds, as it seems that browser-makers are increasingly trying to obscure them from us.[1]. My approach is non-standard, but hopefully conveys the message 🙂 [1] Rather like Steve Jobs trying to hide the file-system, some people love to take away anything that it might actually…
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Iterative, Test-Driven Development
My Quora answer : Iterative, “test driven”, development. Break your idea down into a number of simple “stories”, each of which describes a single chunk of activity which goes all the way through from the beginning to the end of a user’s experience with the software. Importantly a story is not a traditional “component” ……
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Ward Cunningham Interview
Another good Ward Cunningham interview The job was really to take C++, which was a fairly static language, and show people how to write dynamic programs in a static language. That’s what most of the patterns in that book were about. And in the process, patterns extended the life of C++ by a decade, which…
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System Modeller
Wolfram Research present “System Modeller”. I’ve always been interested in this kind of software, so I need to check this out.
Got any book recommendations?