I was at Plone conference last week in Seattle. There is something about rubbing shoulders with hundreds of developers that keeps your energy level up. People were so engrossed in discussions of content management, configuring and installing portals, hacking Python code and it all seemed so natural. The theme of the conference was Content, Collaboration […]
Technical Evangelism is one of most favorite jobs. If I did not have my little startup, I would be jumping up and applying for this one. I think it is cool, because: You are interacting with customers You are telling them interesting stories (not just what your product does but also why it was built, […]
Alex Limi’s session on Friday at PloneConf 2006. Goal is for release in Mar 2007. I am capturing it as Alex is speaking. Plone is the most powerful CMS, I know. You can find more info about this conference in PloneConf Wiki. Versioning (History of modifications, replaceable backend, reverting rivisions, diff between revisions) In-place Staging( […]
Will the need to program multi-core systems increase our awareness of existing approaches to concurrent programming? Will concurrency become an extension to the existing popular programming languages, bring about adoption of new or will become a transparent capability in the operating system? Here is an interesting look at Erlang, a language designed for concurrency and […]
Google creates a tool for creating your own contextual search engine. And an addition tool to customize it incrementally. You can create your own, here. You can customize it in two ways: By specifying a set of keywords By specifying a set of websites (the search can be limited to these sites or just used […]
A fascinating entry from Think Blog. Every era has a company that defines it. We are now in the Knowledge Economy. A global multi-cultural, fast moving, unwired world with very different needs and challenges. An interesting time to be in the middle of it all.
I found this nice discussion about functional languages in Linspire (thanks to Silicon Valley Patterns Group). Erlang: Distributed systems, massive concurrency, anything with lots of network IO (webservers, load balancers), particularly binary network protocols ML: Fast. Easy to express complex data structures. Good for theorem provers, compilers, other algebraic manipulation software. Haskell: Very strong compiler […]
Here is an innovative way of teaching Computer Science. From Mark Guzdial’s blog: Our goal is to teach computer science — using robotics and cognitive science as inspiration, but also drawing on computational science and other domains. We’re using robots as a strategy for learning and teaching — a place to draw interesting examples and […]
The effective programmers instinctively know this. They get bored doing the same thing over and over again so end up builidng their own tool to automate the boring part of their work. From Phil’s Technometria: As programmers, we ought to be tool builders. Anytime you find yourself doing something more than once, build a tool. […]
Ever since I read Mindstorms about 4 years ago, I was fascinated by Mathetic thinking, proposed by Seymour Papert. Papert is a living legend – the inventor of Logo and someone who predicated that students would be using computers in early sixties. Here is Judy O’Connel’s blog on Global Summit 2006 (what a cool blogid) […]