He’s Just Had Coffee

So back in 2003, Jaron Lanier talked about “phenotropic programming” which use pattern recognition to connect components. It strikes me that one could look at systems like Agenda and wikis as things that acknowledge the structure should be allowed to arise from phenomena, rather than needing structure to be defined a priori, for fun lets characterise […]

Some notes I found in an old folder that I wanted to type up. I figured, why not share? It’s a couple of years old and a little rusty, and simplistic, but I’d love to hear feedback… Machines and people share some similar action patterns at the micro-level of mechanical action [1] and the macro-level of […]

Martin Fowler (MF Bliki: CollectionClosureMethod:) describes the rich library of collection iterators available to languages with closures (also called “blocks”) like Ruby and Smalltalk. as he says, “… the combination of closures and collections leads to some very nice things.” What he doesn’t quite say, but what I’ve found, is that because these methods are semantically […]

So… the buzz finally got to me and I figured that I’d better wrap my head around Ruby On Rails (thanks to bj and David for subtly exerted pressure and encouragement). Like just about everyone else in the (coding, blog-reading) world, the killing blow for me was the video. http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/HowtoInstallOnOSXTiger http://www.entropy.ch/software/MacOSx/mysql/ http://cocoamysql.sourceforge.net/ http://macromates.com/ Technorati Tags: coding