OMG, I’m not really a gamer – tend to get bored pretty quickly except in social settings (as fellow ex-DSTC Halo players will attest), but I haven’t played anything as addictive as Desktop Tower Defense since Lemmings on my Amiga 1000.
+1 : catching multiple exception types
Earlier I mused briefly about standard OS APIs based on a REST approach.
It seems that a commercial offshoot of some HP Labs research is actively developing a similar concept.
I have to agree with James, “Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface” by Bret Victor, is an excellent essay, and a must read for anyone involved in producing any kind of software. Please do, especially if you’re responsible for sites like transinfo.qld.gov.au, yourmovies.com.au, and www3.netbank.commbank.com.au
Of course, if sites like these offered decent [...]
Don’t ask how I came across this, but it left me wondering if Australia had anything in the way of the “vertical cemetery”. Maybe, but it looks like Palacom only want to bury you standing up; not nearly as pretty.
I’m heading to Seoul for the ACM SAC 2007 conference, March 11-15. It should be quite interesting; besides the Model Transformation track that our paper is in, there are quite a few diverse tracks that should ensure there’s something interesting to listen to for most of the conference. Being outside the US & [...]
Via LtU I found a reference to First Class Relationships in an Object-oriented Language, by Gavin Bierman and Alisdair Wren, a paper published at ECOOP 2005.
This is great! I was kicking around this kind of idea with Jim before he left for his PhD in France.
I’m looking forward to a close read of it.
The second way to teach quantum mechanics leaves a blow-by-blow account of its discovery to the historians, and instead starts directly from the conceptual core — namely, a certain generalization of probability theory to allow minus signs. Once you know what the theory is actually about, you can then sprinkle in physics to taste, and [...]
I just discovered the gpcg_talk mailing list and have been working through the archives.
The conclusion of the following exchange had me ROTFL
Yes, there is much belly-aching on this list about anonymous NEHTA staffers and advisers making decisions and setting policy and directions without enough consultation with stakeholders, but people forget that before NEHTA we had [...]
Kerry says
“I am saving 5 stars for the first cemetery that comes with a coffee shop”
so I’m looking forward to her review of Macquarie Park Cemetary, unless its NSW locale renders it ineligible for her archive.