Use GMAil ,James?
Spotted in Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants
I am a recent convert to GMail - very neat, love the overlaying of a thread of notes, best Web interface to mail I have seen
2005/01/28
2005/01/26
Paul Graham strikes again
Paul's latest essay is out:What You'll Wish You'd Known
Should I show it to my kids?
2005/01/20
Crossing-the-chasm for laggards
Via James Robertson:It's Time to Fix Tech Marketing - Computerworld: "'How many consultants does it take to make your software work?'"
Darn, more MBA update required.
Disruptive Programming Languages
Spotted in Bill Clementson's Blog
In that presentation, he used Clayton Christensen's excellent book The Innovator's Dilemma to illustrate how even entrenched programming languages such as Java and C could lose dominance and market share when confronted with disruptive changes in technology
I used "The Innovators Dilemma" for "Open Source in Software Development" in my MBA dissertation, so I am a real sucker for this type of analysis. It is interesting that more and more presentations on new languages seem to be popping up; dissatisfaction with the main languages is growing, or is this a quest for more research grants? My bet is that it is the former, and a language radically different from C/C++/Java will emerge ( hopefully sooner rather than later).
Good luck Bill
Good luck to Bill Clementson: Spotted in Bill Clementson's Blog Sometimes unplanned career changes really help - I hope this is the case for Bill and the many other PeopleSoft folk.
MDA Limitations?
Forrester Report Shows Developers Reluctant To Adopt MDA:
When companies hear about MDA, they are superficially interested, but when they realize what it entails, they back away. They fear MDA is rigid, is slow and will be difficult to implement
Awesome indeed
Spotted in Lemonodor
" "I became interested in Lisp-like languages mostly from hearing Python programmers look for x in the language, "because Lisp has it". So about two years ago, I armed myself with ANSI Common Lisp, and dived in. Since then, PAIP, The Little Schemer, The Seasoned Schemer, Lisp in Small Pieces, SICP, On Lisp (dead-tree version), EOPL, CLtL, etc. And I haven't looked back; it's over a year since I coded a program more than 100 lines in something other than CL/Scheme. As has been put in more eloquent ways on the RtL highlight reel, all other languages just look fundamentally wrong and unwieldy by comparison. More importantly, from c.l.l and p.l.o traffic, it seems that we're growing in number "
Awesome. "
Mid-rank nerd
Via WebMink:Wx Plotter Fun Tests - Nerd Quiz: "
How do I feel about this? Obviously WebMink is happy to be a Nerd - not sure I would be. But then perhaps it would be better to be totally unNerdy....
2005/01/18
Don't compare the Mac Mini to the usual PC
Macintosh: It's a User Thing: "The Mac Mini is a game changing system. This thing is so small and cheap, it's opening up new possibilities. Put a Mac wherever in the home it would be handy to have a computer. The Mac Mini is a wonderful example of Apple thinking different that's going to be very profitable for them, and grow their market share significantly. It's the best thing they've done in computers since the iMac. Hell, I never did like the iMac that much. Possibly it's the best thing Apple's done in computers since the original 128K Mac. Despite Apple's perennial lagging in the Java and office software spaces, I'm more bullish on Apple than I have been in a long time. It's a great time to be using Macs or selling Mac software."
"The real problem with this, and dozens of similar posts and articles I've seen around the Net, is that they aren't comparing oranges to oranges. Instead they're comparing tangerines to grapefruits. A Mac Mini is not equivalent to a $499 Gateway PC or white box. It is better than these boxes. Size and design matter. "
I've just got to see one of these things - and I'm someone who puts together computers for th home - erhaps I'm jus getting lazy!!
2005/01/17
Open Source Rexx
Catching up on James' blog:The Rexx Language Association - Press Release: "IBM Contributes Scripting Language to the Rexx Language Association"
I used to use Rexx ages ago, and a very good scripting language it was too.
But am I going to look at ObjectREXX now, after so much water has flowed under the bridge, and new languages, especially Python, seem to fil this spot now? Life is too short to investiage every new language......
How do you know want you want, if you don't know what is available?
Spotted in Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants
I seem to remember Paul Graham making this point in "Hackers and Painters"; languages train you to think in their terms. Looking at a new language isn't enough - you have to get in there and try things out, otherwise you won't see the new; instead, look at what other exponents are doing and see whether it helps you - if it does how would you do it in your "normal" language?
Lip macros are a classic - hard to see why you might want them, especially if your language already has something clalled macros.
The New Analysts
Since James was kind enough to comment on this blog, here is a pointer. A supericial skim shows something interestin. deli.cio.us pointer added for follow-up.
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2005/01/15
How to drive up your blog traffic!!
Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey: Blogger myths and facts!: "I frequently blog naked!"
PS: I don"T BTW!!
Via scoble
2005/01/12
Boing Boing: More on anti-Alzheimer's curry ingredient: "Interesting reply to my earlier post about the Alzheimer's fighting effect of curcumin, a chemical found in turmeric:
David Soleimani-Meigooni sez: Curcumin also has many other clinical properties such as anti-cancer/anti-tumor, anti-inflamatory, and anti-oxidant properties."
David Soleimani-Meigooni sez: Curcumin also has many other clinical properties such as anti-cancer/anti-tumor, anti-inflamatory, and anti-oxidant properties."
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