A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog

  • He he! Perhaps NooRanch is NooVictorian …. (I know, bad, bad pun)

  • What’s this? 1 2 21 211 22 3 4 41 42 43 431 4311 5 An HTML list that came out of GeekWeaver, when I called this recursive function : ::rec . :for x,, #__ . ${x/=} :hasChild x :rec ++ #x__ on a chunk of OPML. That’s pretty much how it’s going to look,…

  • Wasabi part 3 And some of Martin Fowler’s book on DSLs is online.

  • Hey! I like NeoVictorianism. There’s a movement I can sign-up for : Built for people Built by people Crafted in workshops Embracing irregularity Inspired

  • 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…

  • 37 Signals on why enterprise software sucks

  • 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…

  • Next installment of the must-read series on FogCreek’s Wasabi. Fascinating to see the problems they’ve come up against and the solutions. What Stefan calls “picture functions” sound close to GeekWeaver “blocks”.

  • Cool RedMonk TV on open source startup.

  • Over at Platform Wars I’m tracking Google’s “square circles” (hierarchical tags)

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