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 […]

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 […]

Read this: Quantum computer solves problem, without running. My conclusion: this article would be a whole lot easier to swallow if the date would have said “April, 1″ instead of “February 22″.
Yesterday, I read about tabletop particle accellerators in Scientific American - electrons surfing shockwaves, roughly. And a couple of weeks before that, an announcement […]

I was going to write a long post about this topic, but luckily someone cut me short. In How to Do What You Love you youngsters can all read about what to do and, more important, what not to do after leaving school. In fact, start right now
One of the best bits:
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Despair, Inc., well known for the demotivational posters that should be present on cubicle walls of any self-respecting company, now has video podcasts under the title Corporate Spin.
The latest installment has Dr. E.L.Kersten giving advice on dealing with employee complaints. His method is both result and cost effective, so run over and watch!

John Hylands reports another milestone on his HUV project, the first autonomous trip of his MicroRover robot.
Using Squeak here makes a lot of sense - the very same environment powers both his mission editor software and the gumstix controlling the robot.
There are not many software development systems that will easily accommodate that range of […]

James Savidge just posted an essay about Dabble - Dabble is one of the most exciting Smalltalk packages currently in an extended beta, and James has done his best to give a very balanced opinion on the package based on a real-world example, his database of open Smalltakl positions. Worth a read.

Pimp my grave is the title of a campaign of one of my customers and last weekend that site went live.
It’s an interesting site - we managed to completely separate design and coding work with help of lots of CSS and a bit of Javascript (rewriting the DOM tree to replace a title with […]

The sole reason I’m still keeping an eye on Java is called Jini. It’s an exceptional piece of work, which for a change leverages Java features instead of battling them. Clean and concise interfaces, very well thought-out functionality with an experienced team that managed to resist feature creep, showing that even in Java it is […]