How to scale Seaside

I’ve been wondering about this for a while. We hear about how the more popular web frameworks can scale with an n-tier architecture, but what about Seaside? Session state is maintained inside of the Squeak image, and unlike other web frameworks it does not save session state to a database. I imagine it lacks that [...]

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Lisberger gives an interview

Hat tip to Tron 2.0 News for this:
Steven Lisberger the creator/director of the movie Tron gave an interview to IGN Entertainment. Here is Part 1 and Part 2 of the interview. They talk about what’s happening now (no, there’s no Tron sequel in the making, unfortunately), and they reminisce about some funny things that are Tron-related, and talk [...]

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Got math?

M. J. McDermott talks about math education in Washington state.

She talks about and demonstrates some “reformed” methods for solving arithmetic problems that have been commonly taught in the 4th and 5th grades: Cluster problems (taught in the “Terc” books), and partial products and partial quotients, and the “lattice method” of multiplication (taught in books called “Everyday Math”). She [...]

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It’s the end of the world as we know it

I’ve had this feeling coming over me in the last week that something significant has been happening in the computer world. To some observers it may not seem like it. With the exception of stuff moving to the web, things are “same as it ever was” to quote David Byrne. The reason I bring this [...]

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Groovy, dude!

A few weeks back I went to a local launch party for Groovy, a FOSS dynamic programming language written in Java. The language will be familiar to Java programmers. It was written that way. In fact, you can write straight strongly-typed Java code using the Groovy environment, so you can use as little or as much [...]

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