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New user? Wednesday, April 21, 2004
SubEthaTrack - why didn't I think of that?
SubEthaTrack - tracking documents shared in SubEthaEdit.
I wish I had thought of that, it's an obvious idea once presented! This is one of those days where light-bulbs will be flashing all over the world, innovators will be thinking of ways that this can be taken further.
Check out the Coding Monkey's chat document. It's an HTML document formatted with CSS. People can add stuff to do the document to participate in the chat, and read it using SubEthaEdit's live web preview window.
Looking back in a few years, if new ideas and ways of collaborating come out of this seed, this will be a historical day.
Thanks for the link Andre!
Kirby Urner's Python in the Mathematics Curriculum talk
When Kirby Urner was at the Plone Sprint I hosted last year, I had no idea of his history with Python and Mathematics. His work is amazing!
Today, Simon Willison linked to Kirby's PyCon 2004 talk, Python in the Mathematics Curriculum. Wow, I wish I had been there for the talk... I wonder if it was filmed or recorded.
Kirby's site, A Mathematical Canvas, part of the Oregon Curriculum Network, has tons of great information for someone interested in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Resume-Driven Development
Daniel H Steinberg: Fragile Programming with RDD
(Daniel is a co-author of WROX's book about WebObjects)
I know a LOT of developers that practice RDD. Here in Victoria, where IT jobs have long been scarce, it's unfortunately been quite common to push for systems to be re-implemented from scratch using whatever the cool new technology-du-jour is so that one can get that tech on their resume. :-(
Sunday, April 18, 2004
April is busy, May and June will be too
Geez, nearly two weeks have past since I posted here. I've tried to post a couple of times, but my site was down for backups.
It's been a really busy month so far, at work and at home, and as far as home stuff goes, it's only just begun.
I'm moving after next weekend! Yeah, we sold the house we built in 2002. Once we're in our new house I'll explain what motivated us to move, yet again.
One side-benefit of the move is we'll be living right next door to the elementary school Cyan is going to next year. I remember living right next door to school in grade 5 and 6, it was awesome being so close. Playground and fields so close, and I suppose I got to sleep an extra 5 or 10 minutes because of it too. :-)
The best thing was probably going home for lunch every day and watching the Flintstones with my Dad, who was at home for much of that period with a back injury. I got my first computer for Christmas in grade 6, so I probably spent my lunch hours playing video games or hacking after that. :-)
Selling most of my D&D collection
I'm selling most of my D&D book collection on eBay. Here's the link to the auction:
D&D Rulebooks, Modules, Accessories - HUGE D&D lot
Bid high, bid often! ;-)
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Tear-off menus rule
I just wanted to get this off of my chest. If I could only have one new feature in Mac OS X 10.4, I would want:
- EOF for Cocoa/ObjC (duh, okay, two features, this one goes without saying but it trumps everything by a million miles and I wouldn't want anyone thinking I don't care about it anymore, because I do!).
- Tear-off menus like in OpenStep/Rhapsody.
I really really miss tear-off menus. They are so darn handy.
There, I said it, and I feel better.
