February 2008
45 posts
robjsoftware.org: A Growable Language Manifesto →
Free AJAX-style Animated Spinning Wait / Busy... →
Ajax loading animated gif - Sanbaldo →
assembling some Squeak images for 6HS. Usually I only assemble images for myself or publish components, so this feels different.
Tinkering with Adobe AIR
WebDAV Shell →
Provides an editable WebDAV interface to Squeak’s class system. With the use of a WebDAV filesystem or sufficiently powerful editor, this enables a file-based view on Squeak.
leaving for LA for a week of on-site meetings
debating whether I’m well enough for a working trip in LA this week
Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0... →
But even though people are catching up to the idea that Wikipedia is a force for good, there are still huge misconceptions about what makes the encyclopedia tick. While Wikipedia does show the creative potential of online communities, it’s a mistake to as
Analysis: e-voting's success rests on... →
If at any point ballots are left either unattended or unsecured, then it’s possible that someone could have tampered with them. The mere existence of that possibility precludes the establishment of a certain chain-of-custodyâthe two are mutually exclusi
still sick, but well enough to sell my older motorcycle
nursing my upper respiratory tract
Michael Clayton's devastating critique of the... →
How to kill the law firm billable hour. - By Lisa... →
Docstoc.com – free legal forms and business... →
Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes (Jakob... →
fighting off a flu with help from my girlfriend
I'm about to pay way too much for a house, and I... →
People are even less willing to sell if that means realizing a loss. The tendency is called “loss aversion”; people hold on to poor investments grimly, hoping for a turnaround. The tendency is called “loss aversion”; people hold on to poor investments gri
Edit In Place →
The Revised Maclisp Manual (The Pitmanual) →
Nicknamed The Pitmanual, The Revised Maclisp Manual describes the programming language MACLISP, which ran on the DEC PDP-10 and Honeywell 6180/6880. This newly-updated Sunday Morning Edition features many editorial corrections, an enhanced hypertext index
File-based sources, resources and version control... →
This post describes MirrorImage, a new VW project to mirror sources and resources for projects to/from the filesystem. It specifically does not handle configuration management issues, and doesn’t integrate with specific VCS’s.
Squeak Smalltalk - KernelImage →
Pavel Krivanek’s (migrated) KernelImage site
went back and rode my Ninja 500, my first bike. I feel like I’ve totally mastered it and it’s quite fun but I feel like a circus bear…
Motorcycle Repair Course →
nothing wrong with 10.5.2 here… still testing the bittorrent airport fix, though :)
I swear our QA lead is trying to crash Bugzilla and the dev team’s brains by flooding it with bug entries.
anyone want to see cloverfield or hang out today?
Seattle Tech Startups →
Weâre a group of entrepreneurs in the Seattle area who give and seek advice on running technology startups. We meet about once or twice a month. This is targeted at founders of, employees of, or those folks interested in joining local technology compan
caucusing, then Saturday House’ing. on my motorcycle!
Credentica - Innovative Security Software for... →
Credentica is a private company based in Montreal, Canada. We provide innovative software products to protect identity-related information in Internet, mobile, and smart-card applications. Our products leverage advanced cryptographic technology to provide
With iPhone, 'Security' Is Code for 'Control' →
In my last column, I talked about the security-versus-privacy debate, and how it’s actually a debate about liberty versus control. Here we see the same dynamic, but in a commercial setting. By confusing control and security, companies are able to force co
feeling relieved that I’m not on the hook for CA state income taxes.
My client is withholding payment on invoices filed in 2008 until I declare that they can withhold 7% for CA state income taxes. Bah!
[Etoile-discuss] ANN: New Objective-C Runtime --... →
- Two layer model, with Self-like object model at the core and classes built on top.
- Very small code base (roughly 10% of the size of the GNU runtime)
- Support for @synchronized on all objects / classes.
- Support for concrete protocols / mixins.
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Allan Jardine | Design →
Design is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet.
finally checking out Last.fm as a way to expand beyond SomaFM
Cocoa for Scientists (Part XX): Python... →
BridgeSupport is a new technology in Leopard that provides a standard means of bridging scripting languages to the Objective-C and C APIs in Mac OS X. The way it works is this: you can use the tools provided by Apple to extract the important interface inf
geeknote (feeling dumb): How long has it been since I remembered that “scp -r” *existed*?
Habemus Dialogum - We Have a Dialog : Things Blog... →
This article is about a single dialog. The dialog with which users will be able to specify the repeat settings of a recurring task.
Unchecked surveillance threatens security as well... →
“The US,” the authors warn, “could build for its opponents something that would be too expensive for them to build for themselves: a system that lets them see the USâs intelligence interests, a system that could tell them how to thwart those interests,
v-strom wiki →
hearing scary things about political caucuses @saturdayhouse
LoginToboggan | drupal.org →
The World Clock Meeting Planner →
Need to make a call to someone far away? Need to arrange a videoconference, telephone- or net-based meeting with several people spread around the globe? This utility should help you find a convenient time, so that no one has to be up during the middle of