Month: October 2007

  • DAn McWeeney has a great post on what he calls “synthesizers” : which seem like generalist / hacker / blogger / communicator type. Personally I think the existence of the web is pushing us all in the direction of being synthesizers.

  • This story about rejecting Rails in favour of PHP is very interesting to me now I’m on a PHP-tip.

  • Some good links on Diseconomies of Scale … via comments at Bruce Eckel’s

  • Important statement (actually essay / braindump) on my thoughts on widgets and YASNS over on my personal blog.

  • Mark Bernstein has a great post (and sounds like a great talk) on NeoVictorian Computing. Wants to return software development to the personal and to making meaning. Via Bill Seitz

  • Cool! Thanks to Dave Stein I now have “programming” on my Behance Profile

  • New meme : GeekWeaver is Language Oriented Programming for everyone else.

  • Good weekend for GeekWeaver development … you can now pass arguments to functions that are more or less table-shaped – like this : :f Fruits apples,, oranges,, pears grapefruit,, passion-fruit,, grapes bananas,, lychees,, mangos It’s not public yet, but it will be available in the next installer. Also, although GeekWeaver is designed to be written…

  • Thanks to Zby for turning me on to Behance which seems to be an interesting combination of social networking for creatives backed by a GTD-style how-to-organize methodology for disorganized creatives, and has special stationery too. Yay! Could fall between a lot of stools, or could be the next-big-thing (more fun than Linkedin, more serious than…

  • Amusing : job vacancy advertised in Twitter. That’s how evolved the coral reef is getting.