• Prototype Based Programming

    Posted on March 30, 2004

    There’s been a decent amount of discussion about prototype based programming lately, with two new projects called Prothon and Slate getting most of the press. So all of this gets the question, what the hell is a prototype based programming language? There’s a definition in the Wikipedia which can shed... [Read More]

  • Online Calendar

    Posted on March 29, 2004

    I forget how I ended up there, but I was reading Michael Sippey’s post about keeping a timeline of major events for the year. There’s an example at his site. I like it. There should be tools to handle these formats for the Palm platform. Open source tools. When I... [Read More]

  • Near Field Communication

    Posted on March 29, 2004

    The Feature has an article about location based services being deployed and experimented with today. It includes a pointer to an article in The Guardian with information about Urban Tapestries and Near Field Communication. I had heard that NFC was a combined project to form an open platform for location... [Read More]

  • Small Pieces all Smushed Together

    Posted on March 28, 2004

    I’ve finally gotten around to reading Small Pieces Loosely Joined as a whole. It’s one of those books that I’ve heard so much about and read so many quotes from that I felt like I would already have a good feel for what it was really about. But once I... [Read More]

  • Open Desktop for the Masses

    Posted on March 28, 2004

    Edd Dumbill posted his take on the next steps for GNOME. There’s been a debate going on about the future direction for the project, I posted a few links a little while ago myself. I have some points that I want to throw in myself, cause I somewhat disagree with... [Read More]

  • Free Culture Plucker version

    Posted on March 27, 2004

    As Lessig points out in a recent entry, there are lots of different formats of his new book Free Culture out there on the Internet now. There’s also a Plucker version out there as well. Plucker is an open source document reader for Palm handhelds. The book kicks much ass,... [Read More]

  • Vagablog Usage

    Posted on March 27, 2004

    blogNation has a post about how to use Vagablog with their service, and Jeff Jarvis over at BuzzMachine called it “my precious Vagablog”. Tehehehehe. Vagablog is a Palm based blog posting tool I wrote a while ago. It hasn’t made me money, but it’s been really cool to see all... [Read More]

  • Gnomedex

    Posted on March 25, 2004

    I just registered for Gnomedex. Yea, I’m a loser, I’ve never been to one before. Certainly sounds kick ass, and it’s in Tahoe, and there’s a three day open bar, and people all over the place with computers and network access. See, I’m getting excited already and the conf is... [Read More]

  • Yahoo's Interactive Billboard

    Posted on March 25, 2004

    Textually.com reports on a new interactive billboard installed by Yahoo! to promote their reworked auto site. The full article is at AdWeek, but it does little to answer my main question. The sign looks like a pretty cool idea. It’ll certainly attract some attention, and it’s novel enough that people... [Read More]

  • Programming Books with Full Text Online

    Posted on March 25, 2004

    I ran across two computer programming books with their full text available online: Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I’ve only skimmed through each of them very briefly, but I personally am going to start on the teach yourself Scheme book. While I... [Read More]