• Vagablog 1.9

    As I’m sure most of you already know, I have a package for Palm handhelds called Vagablog that allows posting directly from a Palm handheld to all sorts of blogging services. I finally released the 1.9 version today. I was on the road for the last month pretty much, so... [Read More]
  • Visual Timeline (and lineage) of Computer Languages

    Gadgetopia posted about a timeline of computer languges. The chart is actually part of a Computer Languages History page, which has links to all sorts of great info. Taking a look at the chart itself it seems like there isn’t as much cross-pollination of languages as there used to be.... [Read More]
  • WINKsite blog

    There have been a bunch of updates to the WINKsite blog lately. Dave Harper, one of the driving forces behind WINKsite (which is just one instantiation of the general Wireless Ink technology), has been laying out some interesting topics. Even though it’s one of the older updates, I highly recommend... [Read More]
  • Direction of the Mono Project

    There’s a report by Edd Dumbill about the Mono project developer meeting, and it includes some good information about the long term goals of the project. I downloaded and fooled around with GNOME long before it was part of any distribution, and did some hacking for the Palm Pilot interface.... [Read More]
  • IRC Tools

    I’ve been wandering around through various IRC channels on freenode.net, and while idling in the #scheme channel I saw a message from the lisppaste bot. I had never seen it before, but it’s a bot that allows for pasting content to a permenant location and sending a notification to the... [Read More]
  • Tiny Linux Computer

    An article over at O’Reilly describes the Gumstix computer, a very small ARM based Linux machine. The systems themselves seem to be quite cheap compared to other embedded system development systems. Information on the sites seems to be a bit spotty with relation to how development tools are made available.... [Read More]
  • Weblogs as Divergent Thinking

    I’ve spent quite a bit of time lately wandering around through various blogs and maintaining my own, but during the last two weeks I’ve had more time to think about what I’ve been doing rather than just continuing to do it. Something that really struck me was how many popular... [Read More]
  • Successful Lisp Online Book

    There was a post at Lemonodor a while ago pointing to the online version of a book called Successful Lisp which is supposed to come out as a real world book some time soon. The post pointed to content at Lispmeister.com, which looks like another great resource for those looking... [Read More]
  • Aunt Tillie vs M4d Sk1llz

    This is some commentary by me about two articles that Eric Raymond wrote recently. Both focus on difficulty in setting up a printing package under Linux. Part one lays out the general problem, and part two goes into some detail about how to solve some of the issues. I agree... [Read More]
  • Open Source Rich Media

    I was reading a review of some new music composition software for Linux when I found a link to Planet CCRMA. Planet CCRMA provides packaged versions of what seems to be a vast collection of audio and video software. I’ve been interested in electronic music composition for a long time,... [Read More]