“Beautiful Code” at Google
Thursday, January 31st, 2008My spies tell me that the next book for everyone to read in Google's design patterns class is Beautiful Code. I look forward to hearing what they think...
Archive for January, 2008
My spies tell me that the next book for everyone to read in Google's design patterns class is Beautiful Code. I look forward to hearing what they think...
ANTLR (?)
Thursday, January 31st, 2008DrProject's wiki parser has reached---in fact, passed---the point of no return. We tried replacing it a couple of years ago, but the results were disappointing. I'm now thinking about trying again using ANTLR to generate a (Python) parser. Yes, it means developers will have to use a ...
Other People Have Already Said It Better
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Best if read in order: Joel Spolsky on Microsoft's announcement that SQL Server 2008 will be late. Phil Factor explains. Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit. George Orwell's Politics and the English Language.
First Figure Out What You Want to Change
Monday, January 28th, 2008I resubmitted a major grant application last Friday (or re-resubmitted --- there was some back and forth too painful and boring to go into here). After celebrating my birthday in quiet but satisfying ways (yes, being woken at 5:30 am by a baby can be fun), I had a ...
The Wheel Turns
Monday, January 28th, 2008From Greg Linden, via Adam Goucher, comes a reference to a paper by Benjamin Livshits and Emre Kiciman of Microsoft Research. "Doloto: Code Splitting for Network-Bound Web 2.0 Applications" describes an automatic mechanism for splitting and stubbing Javascript, so that only the bits the page really needs are downloaded right ...
Recycled Words: knismesis
Friday, January 25th, 2008In keeping with today's spirit of re-using and recycling wherever possible, I would like to propose that the word "knismesis" be redefined, so that instead of meaning "light tickling", it means "that slightly disoriented feeling of having invaded someone else's personal space you get when faced with their keyboard bindings, ...
A New Home
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008After almost five years of sterling service, we have finally retired our old server and bought a domain at site5.com. Many, many thanks to Jon Pipitone for doing all the heavy lifting to do this for both third-bit.com and streetknit.ca.
I Wasn’t At CUSEC This Year…
Monday, January 21st, 2008...but Tim Bray thought it was a blast, and so did Jon Udell (who has posted his talk---very interesting, as always). 1 and 3 describe the talks they attended, and 2 should ask himself if attitudes like his are part of the reason for the gender gap he bemoans ...
Posted from my New XO
Sunday, January 20th, 2008Cute little machine, but such a tiny keyboard... But it runs DrProject.
Firefly
Friday, January 18th, 2008If you have my Firefly DVDs, and/or my copy of Serenity, please put up your hand. OK, now put it back on the keyboard and send me email.