Software Craftsmanship 2009
Saturday, November 29th, 2008Unlikely I'll go (no money), but Software Craftsmanship 2009 (in London on February 26) looks pretty cool.
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Unlikely I'll go (no money), but Software Craftsmanship 2009 (in London on February 26) looks pretty cool.
My Via Experience
Thursday, November 27th, 2008Tuesday: go to train station to buy a round-trip ticket to Kitchener. "Does the train have wireless?" "Let me check... yes, that train has wireless." Wednesday: get on the train, turn on laptop, try to connect to the Internet. 24 hours of wireless for $8.95 plus taxes sounds pretty good: I'll ...
StreetKnit is Back!
Monday, November 24th, 2008After a bit of hiatus caused by getting married (to me) and moving house (with me --- and yes, we're still married), Sadie is warming up StreetKnit for another season. You knit, they give it to the homeless to help them get through the winter, and the world is a ...
Happy 25th Birthday, TurboPascal
Thursday, November 20th, 2008A lot of it seems obvious now, but it really did change the world...
If a Computer Has Touched You Inappropriately…
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008The Computer Science department at the University of Toronto is featured in a recent episode of "Byte Club". I can hear the hippos whispering...
Maybe If I Write About Them, They’ll Go Away
Monday, November 17th, 2008Prof. Sven Dickinson (acting chair of Computer Science at the University of Toronto) came in to talk to my undergrad software engineering class last Friday about life as a researcher. He made it sound pretty appealing, but his description of where his time goes made it clearer than ever ...
StartupEmpire: Wish I Had Been
Monday, November 17th, 2008The one-day StartupEmpire conference ran last Thursday, and by all accounts was a great success --- see Jevon's description for some details, and Osh Momoh's for a more jumbled but equally enthusiastic view. I wish I could have gone, but reading this from Jevon almost makes up for missing it: The ...
The Family Has Landed
Saturday, November 15th, 2008We are finally in our new house --- still lots to do, but this is now home. Yay!
Sorry to Be So Rushed…
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008...but too much has piled up for me to do more than post a few randoms: Remote control whale snot collection is even stranger than shrimp running on a treadmill. 50 of the 350 teams that took part in Microsoft's Puzzle Challenge were from U of T --- that's almost 200 people. ...
At a Glance
Monday, November 10th, 2008I posted a note about Wordle back in June, and keep coming across interesting ways to use it. The most recent is this "abstract" from Amazon's Deepak Singh: Anybody doing this for code yet?