lesscode.org
Gosling Didn’t Get The Memo
http://lesscode.org/2006/03/12/someone-tell-gosling
Laquo; I’ll Be Speaking At Canada On Rails Conference. Time To Stop Obsessing About The Infrastructure? Gosling Didn’t Get The Memo. Under Then they fight you. On 12 March 2006. I’ve been blissfully neglecting this site for months with the assumption that a large part of our goal was completed. After watching good people like Martin LaMonica. Balance out the mainstream tech press with coverage of lessish tools and languages,. Having seen forward looking companies like RedMonk. Something must have changed...
lesscode.org
Code is Model
http://lesscode.org/2005/10/19/code-is-model
Laquo; Little Help? Ruby, Rails and The Art of Software Development. On 19 October 2005. There is a great post by Harry Pierson over at his DevHawk blog site. Describing what can we learn from looking at the success of mainstream text-based programming languages to help us in the development of higher abstraction modeling languages that are actually useful. As I have written elsewhere, I am a huge fan of raising the level of abstraction. Or that plane you just flew in on? What are we afraid of? Why are w...
weblog.philringnalda.com
phil ringnalda : Nice <gorilla>; what’s he weigh?
http://weblog.philringnalda.com/2006/02/01/nice-gorilla-whats-he-weigh
Laquo; A Google just for me. Where’s Mama Bear’s update notification? Nice gorilla ; what’s he weigh? Several things are interesting me about IE7β2, but most of all is a relatively minor decision in the feed handling code. If you start from the RSS 2.0.1-rv6 spec. And follow along carefully, you should notice that the. Which is a child of. Is described as allowing escaped HTML, while no other element is so described, and you then. Title é /title. It is because they want their readers to see. Howev...
justatheory.com
Just a Theory: Notes on Upcoming Sqitch Improvements
http://justatheory.com/computers/databases/upcoming-sqitch-improvements.html
Theory waxes practical. By David E. Wheeler. Notes on Upcoming Sqitch Improvements. I was traveling last week, and knowing I would be offline a fair bit, not to mention seriously jet-lagged, I put my hacking efforts into getting MySQL support into Sqitch. I merged it in yesterday; check out the tutorial. If you’re interested in it. I expect to release v0.980 with the MySQL support in a couple of weeks; testing and feedback would most appreciated. The microsecond precision support in. This is to make it m...
usamajility.blogspot.com
Usamajility: Firefox History Cleanup
http://usamajility.blogspot.com/2008/04/firefox-history-cleanup.html
Like the UI Hall of Shame, but with more swearing. Originally uploaded by Xurble. So far I'm liking Firefox 3. I'm even getting used to the smart address bar thingemy. But since it's so damn smart now, it feels like a missed opportunity to fix one of my biggest browser auto-complete bugbears. How do you get rid of an erroneous (say mistyped) entry from the list? Particularly one the goes to the top of the list and obscures the thing you're really after. Saturday, April 05, 2008.
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tyenki.com » Thoughts
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Christophe Lauret’s musings on technology and the Web. April 13th, 2009. After a few years of service, the time had come for us to refactor one of the components of our system. Like many components, it was never fully specified, and had evolved overtime so I needed to do some preliminary study of the code to scope the amount of work needed and know more precisely what it was doing before starting the actual redevelopement. When I started looking at the code, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. What surpr...
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tyenki.com » vocabulary
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Christophe Lauret’s musings on technology and the Web. Posts Tagged ‘vocabulary’. Of the importance of choosing the right word. Friday, March 27th, 2009. Nearly a century ago, in his book The problems of Philosophy. Bertrand Russell commented on the work of Bishop Berkeley. It is often said, as though it were a self-evident truism, that we cannot know that anything exists which we do not know. [.]. And he made an important remark:. In this sense of the word we know. Which we may call. Although it may app...
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tyenki.com » About
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Christophe Lauret’s musings on technology and the Web. My name is Christophe Lauret and it seems you have somehow landed on my website. I live in sunny Sydney (Australia*) where I work as a software engineer. At the moment, I spend a fair amount of my time contributing to PageSeeder. A collaborative publishing platform. Like everyone I am interested in many things, but I use this website mostly for subjects related to software and the Web. Since software is for people, I have a strong interest in. Althou...
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tyenki.com » Interests
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Christophe Lauret’s musings on technology and the Web. If you’re curious to know what I am interested in apart from technology, here is a sample. Being naturally curious, there would be a few too many things for me to mention, so I have restricted it to just a couple of things and I have no intention to maintain this page on a regular basis. What I have been reading…. The Blogging Revolution - Antony Loewenstein. Being interviewed for his latest book The Blogging Revolution. I’ve had a long-standin...
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