Posted in Analysis, Programming, Squeak, Technology and Software, tagged .Net, C++, History, Java, OOP, Smalltalk on June 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Paul Murphy saw fit to give me another guest spot on his blog, called “The tattered history of OOP”, talking about the history of OOP practice, where the idea came from, and how industry has implemented it. If you’ve been reading my blog this will probably be review. I’m just spreading the message a little [...]
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A while back I wrote my “Reminiscing” series of posts talking about the history of the machines I used growing up, as I remembered it. I came upon a few materials on reddit over a period of about a month that gave more authoritative histories of the Atari ST and Amiga. They’re really neat to look [...]
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I’m now back home after a long trip (though my busy-ness has not ended), and I noticed that my local CompUSA store, as far as I can tell, is still here.
This is old news, but I happened to look for information on the fate of CompUSA, and I found an article saying that the store chain was bought [...]
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Hi guys. Just FYI, a little more than a week ago I wrote a comment on one of Paul Murphy’s blog postings, called “The worst PC myth of all”. Murphy is a blogger on ZDNet. He liked my comment a lot, and he and I agreed to have it as a guest post on his blog, called “Managing L’Unix”. I changed it a bit [...]
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Joshua Bloch, Chief Java Architect at Google, gave a talk entitled “The Closures Controversy” at Javapolis in December 2007. I found it online through reddit, and it intrigued me, because I think it illustrates a disconnect between what we as an industry are doing and the goals we have. Bloch also makes what I think [...]
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I found this item on reddit. An entry in the GNU Smalltalk FAQ, under the heading “Does GNU Smalltalk run Seaside?” says that it will support Seaside in a release scheduled for March 8th. Now, the FAQ posting that says this is dated June 20, 2007. I’ve asked about this on reddit. Has the release date slipped any [...]
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The XO went into production late last year, and I’ve been looking for interesting material on it to talk about here. David Pogue of the New York Times did a review of the XO last year, but I just found the video for it.
I think he does a really good job of presenting it in [...]
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I heard on the radio a couple days ago that CompUSA is going out of business. It’s been sold to a private equity company, and the plan is its stores will be gradually liquidated. This is not the end of the computer retail chain as a fixture in our society. Now there are Apple stores, but they’re really the only ones left. [...]
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If you are offended easily, it would be best just to skip the following link. If you want to see an indication of what the pop culture in computing is centered around today, this is pretty good (h/t to James Robertson). There’s a little rough language. It’s a Web 2.0 “catchy-phrase” generator. Amazing how a computer [...]
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The pop culture
This is my last post in this series. In the other parts I’ve written positively about my experience growing up in the computing culture that our society has created. Now, bringing this full circle, I will be looking at it with a critical eye, because I’ve come to realize that some things have been missing. If you compare what I’ve [...]
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