Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Big Milestone

Today I attended my last undergraduate lectures. I have 2 final projects due this week and 2 due next week, and finally an exam on the 16th. Then, assuming all goes well, I will have graduated!

links for 2008-04-03

• Ruby Concurrency with Actors (On Ruby)
  (tags: concurrency erlang ruby actors actor-model)
• Actors: Foundations for Open Systems
  (tags: actor-model concurrency programming distributed language actors)
• PARLEY
  Python Actor Runtime LibrarY* (the "E" is for Erlang)
  (tags: actor-model concurrency programming python erlang message-passing distributed)

Great slides on the Actor Model by Steve Dekorte of Io fame

Steve Dekorte, C4 2006: Actors, a Unifying Pattern for Scalable Concurrency

You've probably noticed all the del.icio.us links to Actor Model and programming language stuff. If you want a good summary, I think these slides are great. If you aren't too interested in the Io language stuff, you can gloss over those slides, you'll find "big picture" talk before and after that section.

This stuff is going to be my life for the foreseeable future.