Smart Disorganized

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  • Hmmm are Gmail Tasks going to kill Mind Traffic Control? (Via Stowe Boyd)

  • Titanium is the free-software version of Adobe Flex / AIR?

  • It’s the 40th anniversary of the original Engelbart demo.

  • Python 3000 released

  • ExtJS has a TreeGrid

  • A couple of great videos via Zbigniew Avi Bryant’s powerful spreadsheet editor that remembers changes that you make by hand and can apply them in bulk to the rest of the lines in your spreadsheet. Note that Avi’s a Smalltalk guy, and a more primitive version of this (repeat last replace) has been in the…

  • A Platform Wars post on spreadsheets.

  • Not making as much progress on SdiDesk.NET as I thought I would. How can Visual Studio 2008 be soooo S-L-O-W? I swear it takes between 30 seconds and minute both to start and stop(!!!) my program executing. At least with punched cards you knew where you were.

  • Jocelyn Paine is one of the more interesting thinkers about evolving spreadsheets. Here’s some recent stuff about components in Google Sheet.

  • StackOverflow discusses how to keep notes about programming projects : paper notebooks win hands-down.