Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
This post from Ron Fredericks includes a custom Flash widget flowcharting the steps required to get a particular WordPress plugin working --- some of the bubbles in the flowchart are "live", in that you can click them and jump to the appropriate places. Very neat...
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
I've been saying for a while that Javascript has a real shot at being the hottest general-purpose scripting language in a few years' time. The announcement of the Tamarin project (see Joe Gregorio's coverage) is a big step in that direction. As he says, the next step has to ...
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
I posted a note a while back about an upcoming workshop at Microsoft Research on computational education for scientists. If you read the call for papers, you'll discover that there aren't any instructions on how to submit material; nor is there any contact information, other than the generic "contact ...
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
Jon Udell just posted some comments on Beautiful Code, in which he says:
...as I’ve been reading it I’m struck once again by the theme of narrating the work. Of the chapters I’ve read so far, three are especially vivid examples of that: Karl Fogel’s exegesis of the stream-oriented interface used ...
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
A couple of months ago I gave the OLM team a copy of Steve Souders' book High Performance Web Sites. Since then, they've improved OLM's performance several times over, in part based on Souders' advice. Last week, one of the team told me about YSlow, a Firefox plugin that implements ...
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
I can't go (family obligations), but I think young developers who are trying to get ahead of the curve ought to check this out.
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Build your own world --- and get credit for it!
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Must... get... organized:
Spend time with my family.
Create and teach CSC301 --- I know what's going to be in the lectures (more or less), but I still have to decide what the extended exercise will be.
Get my three graduate students (Samir Abdi, Jeremy Handcock, and Carolyn MacLeod) started on their research.
Lose ...
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
Inspired by this subway map of tech companies in Montreal, Jay Goldman and Leila Boujnane are putting together one for Toronto --- see this thread for progress to date, and to add information.
On a semi-related note, the Toronto Board of Trade is doing a survey of Information and Communication Technology ...
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