Month: March 2012
-
Make Your Own Programming Language
Nathan’s University offers an online course. I’ve signed up.
-
Project ThoughtStorms Goes Live
ThoughtStorms has been ported across to the Smallest Federated Wiki. Of course, there are plenty of failures, missing pages, bits of markup that aren’t handled correctly etc. But this is wiki, right? It’s never perfect. It’s always living and dying and composting. The problems will get flushed out, or worked-around, or become charming ruins over…
-
Project ThoughtStorms
As mentioned previously, I’ve been looking into Ward Cunningham’s “Smallest Federated Wiki” concept. And I’m increasingly impressed. So much so, that I’ve re-oriented a lot of my projects around it. What do I mean? A decent follow-up to SdiDesk has been promised for an embarrassingly long time. Over the years I’ve struggled with exactly what…
-
Unicode
OK. I’m an idiot. So here’s today’s BIG Unicode lesson; understand this and, maybe, half your troubles will evaporate. Unicode is NOT a “code”. No. Unicode is a kind of platonic ideal of which everything else is an “encoding”. ASCII is an encoding. UTF-8 is an encoding. That weird character set you got with Portuguese accented…
-
Updating node.js on Ubuntu
Node.js in the main Ubuntu repo is fairly out of date. Here’s a useful page on installing the latest. Thanks Yodi Aditya.
-
Smallest Federated Wiki
I can’t believe I haven’t looked more carefully at Ward Cunningham’s Smallest Federated Wiki. I did glance at it before, but am now making my way through the videos. Lot’s of absolutely perfectly pitched ideas working together.
-
HUD
Personally, I’m looking forward to the new Ubuntu interface : HUD. Looks to me a lot like Humanised Enso (which I was a big fan of when I used Windows regularly)