Well, the happy times of being a freelancer are over. I’ve let myself being sucked back into the ugly web of white collar slavery, or in other words I accepted a regular job.
Starting next week, I’ll work for Telegraaf Media ICT, which is the in-house IT company of the Telegraaf Media Group, a large […]

Michael Robertson, of MP3.com and LindowsLinspire fame, keeps looking around for the Next Big Thing™.
This time, he thinks he has found it in ajaxWrite, the first of a suite of AJAX-based web applications. As the name says, ajaxWrite is a word processor. Simple, but functional so it might be enough for a large number […]

In Gosling Didn’t Get The Memo a statement by James Gosling that is too dumb to be true (but alas, it is) is dissected. Along the way, the article churns out a very long list of links to sites and blog posts containing ammo for fighting the Java crowd (and their associates over at C# […]

This demo site shows how Seaside and Scriptaculous are integrated - not only can you see how everything works, but the creator (Lukas Renggli) added ‘view source’ buttons with all the demos so you can look at the actual source code.
The two major things that stand out in the source code: it is all […]

Plopp is the name of a new product by Impara that is marketed as a 3D drawing toy for kids - it uses the “blow up” algorithm most Squeakers know.
Apart from the news that this is a boxed, commercial Squeak product (available in pre-order on Amazon.de, among others), it is a fun toy. […]

Hi all from Brussels - we just finished a day of presentations, ranging from Bryce talking us through Intel assembler to Bert showing us software for kids.
I’m not going to write a long report - first, I still have a bit of a hangover from yesterday, and second, you should have joined if you’re […]

In Sustainability of Human Progress, John McCarthy (retired computer scientist, you may have heard of him) tries to find out whether progress is sustainable. The twist - being a scientist, he can’t help sticking to facts.
An interesting read. I think that progress is sustainable (and yes, nuclear energy is going to be a bigger […]