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Month: January 2014

  • Tweaking / Refactoring OWL / OWLdroid

    A bit of tweaking and refactoring OWL and OWLdroid over the last couple of days. If you’re trying them out, thinking of doing any development on OWL, it’s worth updating. What’s up : – the main purpose of this work was to bring the OWL and OWLdroid versions of the code-base back together. They’d drifted…

  • The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C

    Good overview by Damien Katz.

  • Bill Seitz's OWL Notes

    Bill Seitz is trying OWL. You can see his notes, and some comments by me, on his wiki-notebook.

  • Software Development on Tablets

    Thanks to Quora, and no thanks to StackExchange, I discovered some research into tablet-based programming. Shame the paper is behind a paywall 🙁

  • StackExchange

    My new strategy. Every time they close my question on StackExchange, I’ll drop them a link to Quora 🙂

  • ▶ OWL Demo on YouTube

    Been meaning to do a video demo of OWL for a while, to make it clear what it really is. Today there was some Twitter discussion of Fargo + TiddlyWiki + syncing so I had to drop a link. And decided that it was better to have a rough and ready video example than to…

  • Questions for 2014 : #4 Visual Design

    Part 4 of a series of questions for 2014 … 4) Can I learn to be a visual designer? My visual design isn’t good enough. It would be wonderful to find a designer I could work with. But I’ve never yet met someone who shared my tastes sufficiently. Either for me to want to recruit…

  • Light Table is Open Source

    Chris Granger – Light Table is open source.

  • Questions for 2014 : #3 Programming on Tablets

    Third in a series (#1, #2) of questions occupying my mind at the beginning of 2014. Which may (or may not) inform what I’ll be working on. 3) How can we program on tablets? I’m now a tablet user. I became a tablet owner at the end of 2012. For six months I played around…

  • Phenotropic Program Design

    An answer I made on StackExchange wrt ideas for Phenotropic Programming. A thought I had recently : If you used high-level ideas like Haskell’s Maybe Monad to wrap remote-procedure calls to other systems. You send a request to the server. But nothing comes back (server is broken). Or a Promise comes back (server is busy)…