Month: September 2007
-
Resolver Systems seem to be a cool, python + spreadsheet company based in London – with the right attitude. Nice demo. Hmmm … and they’re hiring … (drifts off into daydreaming)
-
Joel Spolsky : And your programmers are like, jeez louise, GMail is huge, we can’t port GMail to this stupid NewSDK. We’d have to change every line of code. Heck it’d be a complete rewrite; the whole programming model is upside down and recursive and the portable programming language has more parentheses than even Google…
-
I’d forgotten that Processing Processing by Paul Ford was one of the inspirations for GeekWeaver.
-
Reading more discussions on the business of Joel has got me thinking about the problem of marketing GeekWeaver. So here’s the pitch … in the classic 5 points of selling 😉 1) The pain you didn’t know you had! Oh, the horror, the horror, too many tags too many files, you have to reach for…
-
An idea I had, over at Joel’s Business of Software : Here’s a thought. I was re-reading this a couple of days ago : http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000348.html as I’m trying to persuade the overworked developers in the place I work to take some time out for this kind of cleaning. And it occurred to me that there…
-
I’ve done a slightly improved GeekWeaver screencast. Still very sketchy, and without audio, but the SWF is smaller, and shouldn’t crash. It just concentrates on the basics : * making several pages* using the .tag notation with outline indenting to save on closing HTML / XML tags* defining a reusable and parameterizable block (in this…
-
I’ve been struggling with Python’s distutils over the weekend, and I’m finally making some progress. There’s a new GeekWeaver page and a new release. The page is part of a revamp of my personal site, which is now being built with GeekWeaver. And the release is the first built with distutils. I was hoping that…