A recent article (Migrating to Page Controllers) does an excellent job of combining theory with some concrete examples and immediate benefits. The article provides a simple technique for factoring ...

During the Q&A; at the Niklaus Wirth talk last night someone mentioned formal methods from the Hoare school of work. Such as Hoare Logic. In particular they were asking why the work there had f...

The success of Pascal came many years after it was done, due to the availability of microcomputers. Now there were lots of people available to program who didn’t have to unlearn Fortran. It was dri...

Here’s some quick notes from the talk that Niklaus Wirth gave at the Computer History Museum on Oct 20th. The topic was “How I Became Interested In Computer Languages”. Professsional career really...

Two sets of notes from the New Geography workshop put on by the Institute For The Future Freds House covers the first day Future Now covers the second day I wasn’t able to m...

Niklaus Wirth is speaking at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on the topic “How I Became Interested in Programming Languages”. Wirth is one of those names that pops up over and over aga...

There’s an SDForum panel presentation tomorrow about Music and Metadata: Over the past 13 years, the web has grown from a simple content distribution mechanism into a vast repository of inform...

Brian Cantoni has a good writeup of a talk about Semantic XHTML given by Kevin Marks and Tantek Celik. The slides are available online as well. There’s some good stuff in there. Lately I’ve been w...

Gnomedex was fantastic. Lots of people to talk to, and I thought the panel discussions were interesting even if others found some fault with them. Being at the conf you hear about a bunch of stuff ...

I’ve had some great conversations over at Gnomedex so far. Here is a by-no-means complete set of links to people I didn’t know before, but I had interesting conversations with. Now I’m going to ...