A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog

  • I’m playing with pipelining in Python over on Composing.

  • Here’s an interesting question (after reading this). Why does anyone want to write “large” programs? Everyone knows large programs are difficult to build and maintain. Want we want is *small* programs that happen to be powerful (do a lot) and scale over large numbers of users. Is there any reason to think that “large” program…

  • Discipulus, patterns for programmers.

  • Python on Silverlight? I’m intrigued despite myself.

  • E.E.Kim on tools

  • Looking at some slides about Perl 6(pdf) … some cute features.

  • Quick note : Blahsploitation is no more … long live “Composing“

  • The impotance of being earnest 🙂 Update : which reminds me of a discussion I’m having with Sig Update 2 : Seems like a lot of ongoing discussion around the place. Joel Spolsky explains.

  • 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…

  • Restless Mind Syndrome (propaganda for the ultra-cool looking LiveScribe)

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