Smart Disorganized

Month: June 2008

  • Dan Bricklin : Socialtext is announcing today that they are adding integrated spreadsheet capability to their enterprise-level wiki, making use of the new SocialCalc code I’ve been developing with them. This isn’t just a repository of separate spreadsheets, nor a separate standalone system like wikiCalc, but rather a full wiki where a page can be…

  • Reactored at GitHub

  • Great talk by Ian Piumarta. From the fascinating looking Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008.

  • Mind Traffic Control is ruthelessly useful. Indeed, it kind of strips out everything else *execept* usefulness. Which is why, if you’re thinking of trying it out, here’s a hint. Don’t try by putting in some random fake items like “test 1”, “test 2” etc. All they do is sit there and remind you to do…

  • Aza Raskin dreams of easier Firefox extensions. Let’s hope that he’s working on it. Also, interesting to compare Steve Yegge on the Firefox vs. Emacs war.

  • Loads of nice stuff going on in Squeakland. Showing Seaside demos to a colleague this week made me wonder whether I need to dive back in. It’s been a long time (15 years) since I wrote any Smalltalk. And what with Python, Erlang, GeekWeaver + some C, PHP, Javascript; and Cache ObjectScript (don’t ask!) in…

  • Folknology’s Reactored is announced. Nice …

  • Goosh (Google Shell) … not from Google, but damned cool.

  • Very interesting history of Nouncer.

  • GAE pricing looks reasonable from my perspective. Or have I not thought through the scenarios? Glad I’m not trying to run some kind of video store of course.