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Time Machine
For some reason I feel compelled to add to the last-minute Leopard pre-release speculation. In this case it’s with regard to Time Machine and the reports that it requires an “external disk” to work. Well, Apple says:
You can designate just about any HFS+ formatted FireWire or USB drive connected to a Mac as [...]
Movember — prostate cancer, depression and men’s health
During Movember (the month formerly known as November) I’ll be growin a Mo. That’s right I’m bringing the Mo back because I’m passionate about changing men’s health and the fight against male depression and prostate cancer. Why…
* Depression affects 1 in 6 men…Most don’t seek help. Untreated depression is a leading [...]
David Hearnden submits!
541 * w00t: I’ve just heard that David Hearnden has submitted his thesis “Deltaware: Incremental Change Propagation for Automating Software Evolution in the Model-Driven Architecture” which, amongst many other things, contains a formal semantics for the model transformation language implemented by Tefkat (in an appendix).
Breeze and Erlang
While paging through Joe Armstrong’s HOPL III talk about Erlang I was struck by the clear similarity between “supervision trees” (slides 28-30) and the exception model in Breeze, the workflow/choreography language I developed at DSTC in the late ’90s. Ironically, my goals/motivations at the time were to explore simplification of concurrent/thread-based programming models by [...]