Smart Disorganized

Tag: sdidesk

  • Quick answer to the guy who used yesterday’s Form Experiment to ask what’s happening with SdiDesk … Here’s the status report : 1) In the last couple of weeks I quit my job and moved back to the UK … which has been taking up quite a lot of my time and energy. 2) Once…

  • Surprising SdiDesk news!!!!! Like Cthulhu, SdiDesk, is still, currently dead, but occasionally stirs in its sleep and sends out weird dreams to the minds of men. Here’s one-such … Around this time last year I got a new laptop with Vista and discovered that the old SdiDesk (in VB6) didn’t work. Not having VB6 on…

  • hat-tip Bill Seitz : Dr. Drang builds a python-based desktop-like notebook.

  • 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…

  • Smart Disorganized Philosophy #1 I’ve been on a Smart Disorganized Individuals tip for several years, now. Always writing software compatible with that philosophy. But what is the philosophy? What does this software mean? In this series I’ll start to make some specific notes towards that. Here’s the first. SdiDesk is wiki : a network of…

  • I’m way too busy now … but I’m having some kicking ideas about my own grandiose bid to improve programming … … think GeekWeaver in an SdiDesk-alike editor (obviously). Then imagine that *everything* is a template. That’s the way that GeekWeaver is already going. Everything is a template (ie. has named slots that can be…

  • Update : for people wondering how the whole new-SdiDesk-in-Adobe-Flex? thing is going. I solved something I thought was a problem yesterday. I now have a (very fragile) Flex front end which can pass plain-text GeekWeaver programs to a web-server with GeekWeaver embedded, and get a compiled chunk of GeekWeaver out. That’s very cool … unfortunately…

  • Just spent the last few hours downloading and playing with the beta of Flex 3, Adobe’s IDE for Rich Internet Applications (ie. applications running on the Flash Virtual Machine) which is based on Eclipse and has an XML-based UI / form description language more or less like HTML. I’m having two thoughts about it. One…

  • Quick Note : I just had a revolution in my thinking, triggered by Enso but influenced by several other recent trends. You write Enso “extensions” as XML-RPC servers sitting on your local machine, register them with Enso and it calls them using XML-RPC. I tried the example from the tutorial and it’s very cute and…