I’m not sure I understand Brent Simmons’ problem, here. If you need the same code running on two or three small specialized web-servers, just write it once in a library and include it in each of them. The repetition of running instances isn’t worth worrying about. I’m wondering if his problem is really a lack …
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YASnippets
I know I’m really (stupidly) late about this, but I’ve only just got into writing snippets in Emacs. I’ve obviously known this was possible, like, forever. But somehow never got round to actually sitting down and learning how to do it and using them. But … damn! That’s useful. Why didn’t I bother to figure …
Working with Facebook?
Dave Winer has some food for thought. I’m not reconsidering my exit from Facebook, but I think he makes some good points.
OWL System Services
I’m starting to add a new feature to OWL. “System Services” are pages created by the OWL Server itself, that contain useful, dynamically generated information. You access them the same way as any other page : either make a link and click on it, or type the page name directly into the OWL navbar and …
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NoFlo
This looks interesting : NoFlo | Flow-Based Programming for JavaScript. A CoffeeScript framework for dataflow?
What's the point?
Dave says it well.
Dave Winer's Pragmatic Turn
I’ve not been paying much attention to Dave Winer recently. But it turns out he’s launching a bunch of stuff. A tool to slice long stories into “tweetstorms”? A meme creator that posts directly to Facebook? A tool to prioritise tweets from important friends? What’s going on here? Dave doesn’t trust major platform vendors an …
Clojure Multimethods
Wow! Now this is weird! I honestly don’t know what to make of Clojure’s ad-hoc hierarchies. I have, I confess, been missing a little bit of the polymorphism I’m used to with classic OO class-hierarchies. This looks like it’s the answer to that. But hmmmm …. if I start down this path am I going …
Brent Simmons : What Happened at UserLand
Brent Simmons : What Happened at UserLand.