Posted in Analysis, Programming on October 29, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I had been researching some books on Squeak in September and I found a couple by Mark Guzdial, a professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In his bio. it notes that he is “the inventor of the Media Computation approach to learning introductory computing, which uses contextualized computing education to attract [...]
Posted in Information Technology, Squeak, Technology and Software on October 24, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I e-mailed David Shaffer (at cdshaffer@acm.org) in early September asking questions about how to configure Seaside. David wrote a tutorial on Seaside that’s available online.
Here, he talks about how to configure Apache to work with Seaside. Then we got into deployment issues: how to run Squeak in “headless” mode (where no GUI appears), and how to disable [...]
Posted in Art, Squeak, Technology and Software on October 21, 2006 | No Comments »
This question was asked recently on The Weekly Squeak blog. They asked, “Is it a toy or an instrument?” This was inspired by a discussion on the Squeak developers mailing list. The discussion got started when someone posted their concern that Squeak is perceived too much us a toy, in a derogatory sense. People take one [...]
Posted in Art, Programming, Technology and Software on October 17, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I found this through Pensieri di un lunatico minore. I’ve been meaning to give this my own “hat tip”.
Great commentary! I had a good laugh. I guess I chose to laugh instead of cry… Seriously, I’ve seen some of this, but fortunately not all.
Edit 10/19/06: Unfortunately I had to shrink down the picture a bit, [...]
Posted in .Net, Just For Fun, Programming, Technology and Software on October 17, 2006 | No Comments »
I found this through Mary Jo Foley’s blog. Wow. I didn’t know coders could be so talented. It’s a nerd celebration in “Heavy .Netal” style (well, actually Carl Franklin of .Net Rocks! podcasting fame is pretty talented himself). You’ll need to follow along to the lyrics, because you won’t be able to understand what they’re [...]
Posted in Just For Fun, Programming, Squeak, Technology and Software on October 14, 2006 | 2 Comments »
It just occurred to me the other day to ask this, and have some fun. This is a follow-up to my blog post “Exploring Squeak and Seaside”.
Avi Bryant’s blog, named “HREF Considered Harmful”, is a play on the title of a famous computer science paper. What was the name of that paper, and who wrote [...]
Posted in Programming, Squeak, Technology and Software, Tutorial on October 10, 2006 | 9 Comments »
This is a joyous ride, and I’m still on it! I’ve been rediscovering my “roots”, and moving forward. It’s ironic that technologies that are now decades old hold keys to the future. As I’ve written about previously, I rediscovered Lisp earlier this year. I’ve put that on the shelf for a while, but I intend [...]
