Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Milestone
Today I installed VMWare Fusion, downloaded an Ubuntu server image, and made three copies of it.
I wanted one image to test the io language, one to test the Rubinius virtual machine for Ruby, and one for testing the Scala language.
So far I have the io and rubinius VMs up and running. I haven't tested any io code yet, but I have tested some sample code that uses Actors against the Rubinius VM.
I'm doing this for my term paper for CSC464 which is about the Actor Model.
links for 2008-04-02
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Which is what makes the situation with Java so bad. Not only is the language bad, the VM is fatally flawed when it comes to actor style concurrency (which is why for all its niceties, Scala will suffer the same problems as Java).
Monday, March 31, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
WWDC 2008 Student Scholarship Program announced
Apple Developer Connection: Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 - Student Scholarship Program
Announced! Good stuff, Apple.
Hockey Day in Victoria
Today I coached two games in the morning, then went to watch Canada's Female Olympic Hockey team in the mid afternoon, then played a game at 7pm.
Now I'm watching the Oilers vs. Flames which started recording as my own game started.
Tomorrow I will coach a game at 10am. If we had won tonight I would have played at 4pm, but we didn't, so, while that sucks, at least I can work on homework tomorrow.




