The program for the lightweight languages workshop is set (just in time, too — it’s on Dec 4!). I got to read the abstracts as I’m on the PC, and I wish I could be there to hear the talks. Go there and blog about it please! I’m particularly interested in the “Debugging without Programming” [...]
Archive for November, 2004
Take that, Dewey
A bookstore in San Francisco organizes its books based on the rarely used Wavelength Classification system. Beautifully useless.
Parade
Went to see the parade of santa claus’es downtown today. It was a traffic mess, but the kids liked it, as is obvious in the pictures above (Sylvia was on my shoulders and Hugo on Emily’s — I like the twistable frame of the Nikon Coolpix 950 for this sort of situation).
Optimistic People Abound
In the tradition of badger badger badger, here is the llama song (via Daren Barefoot). A nice way to end the week.
If you know anyone…
If you know anyone who’se interested in a job at ActiveState and qualifies for one of the five positions we have open, get them to apply now (we’re, as always, trying to move fast). I think each of the five positions is actually pretty interesting — a chance to work with a pretty neat team [...]
Silly CV/resume
Through Loic’s blog, a pointer to a fun flash-based CV. What’s amazing to me is that apart from a slight (ok, not so slight) French accent, the English version and the French version are remarkably the same, not only in terms of content but in terms of the musicality (ahem) of the renditions.
Jon Udell’s demos
Jon Udell asks what to call his experiments with downloadable narrated demos of software. He’s looking for a name that describes: A progressively-downloadable video, which shows interaction with software, as is narrated by a presenter, or as emerges in a conversation. I think he’s got the requirements wrong. What’s interesting about what Jon’s been doing, [...]
Jon Udell's demos
Jon Udell asks what to call his experiments with downloadable narrated demos of software. He’s looking for a name that describes: A progressively-downloadable video, which shows interaction with software, as is narrated by a presenter, or as emerges in a conversation. I think he’s got the requirements wrong. What’s interesting about what Jon’s been doing, [...]
Bloglines & Twisted
Interesting bit found in my webserver access logs: 209.67.209.74 – - [08/Nov/2004:00:07:32 -0500] “GET /blog/index.cgi/?flav=rss HTTP/1.0″ 404 24542 “-” “Twisted PageGetter” Googling “Twisted PageGetter” confirms that it’s a spider that comes with Twisted Python. Once more, Python’s in the web spidering business, this times w/ bloglines.
Bloglines & Twisted
Interesting bit found in my webserver access logs: 209.67.209.74 – - [08/Nov/2004:00:07:32 -0500] “GET /blog/index.cgi/?flav=rss HTTP/1.0″ 404 24542 “-” “Twisted PageGetter” Googling “Twisted PageGetter” confirms that it’s a spider that comes with Twisted Python. Once more, Python’s in the web spidering business, this times w/ bloglines.
