Smart Disorganized

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  • I use Subversion source-control (I have one web-hosted repository, one on my pendrive, and I just started using Google Code.) But I’m tempted by distibuted source-management. The arbitrary decision as to whether I host a project online or on my pen-drive is … well … arbitrary, and sometimes needs to be revised. Distributed would be…

  • Ouch! Major down for Mind Traffic Control today. Must be something to do with the fix I posted this morning which I thought was pretty harmless (and worked for me at that moment, honest!) Anyway, I’m not in front of a machine where I can work on it, this second. But I’ll roll back to…

  • I fixed a subtlish bug in Mind Traffic Control today. I was trying to pull the email address out of user objects using user.email() … however it seemed that you might be able to have users who don’t have an email address and for who user.email() fails or returns None. Not common, I guess because…

  • Stowe Boyd vs. the Neo-Fordians

  • Tim Burks talks about his language Nu (seems to be kind of Ruby-like behaviour with a Lisplike appearance (lack of syntax?) Good references to Brad Cox‘s Planning the Software Industrial Revolution. Cool. Didn’t know this stuff before.

  • Dan Bricklin : Socialtext is announcing today that they are adding integrated spreadsheet capability to their enterprise-level wiki, making use of the new SocialCalc code I’ve been developing with them. This isn’t just a repository of separate spreadsheets, nor a separate standalone system like wikiCalc, but rather a full wiki where a page can be…

  • Reactored at GitHub

  • Great talk by Ian Piumarta. From the fascinating looking Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008.

  • Mind Traffic Control is ruthelessly useful. Indeed, it kind of strips out everything else *execept* usefulness. Which is why, if you’re thinking of trying it out, here’s a hint. Don’t try by putting in some random fake items like “test 1”, “test 2” etc. All they do is sit there and remind you to do…

  • Aza Raskin dreams of easier Firefox extensions. Let’s hope that he’s working on it. Also, interesting to compare Steve Yegge on the Firefox vs. Emacs war.