A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog

  • I’m getting an error message on Mind Traffic Control : A server error occurred. Please contact the administrator. First time I’ve seen it is tonight, but if anyone else is seeing it and it persists, then please tell me in the comments. Update : OK, seemed to have fixed itself pretty quickly. Update 2 :…

  • SO, BASICALLY, IT’S LIKE AECO-FRIENDLY MARKETPLACEFORERLANG ENTHUSIASTS! If only …

  • TwitterSheep is entertaining.

  • Great talk on TDD, Ward Cunningham and what killed Smalltalk.

  • The end of Google Wave?

  • How to write an interpreter in one day.

  • ThinkLinkr, another pretty slick web-based outliner.

  • Finally, Oli resurfaces with a blog about Semantic Programming, SemProLa and issues of programming the semantic graph. Added to my blogroll of course … and I’ll be following here. Watch that space!

  • LULZ : Did Google just re-invent Visual Basic? Now, if they’d also made it do Yahoo Pipes-like stuff, *that* would have rocked.

  • Mark Bernstein : It’s easy to add generality to a spec. It makes you look really smart, especially when someone else is going to do the coding. But too much generality too soon makes the code age prematurely; you can get old, brittle, confusing code that looks like it’s yellowed with age, even though it’s…

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