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April 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 6:13 PM

ChucK Audio Programming Language

I saw reference to ChucK on Prompt Criticality , a Second Life Blog. I wanted to blog it for my own reference if for no other reason. ChucK is "a new audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance" that "presents a new
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Monday, April 24, 2006 4:50 PM

Sacred Code Cows

I wrote of my meeting w/ Neal Ford a few weeks ago. Today he has a long post on what he calls Eating Sacred Hamburger that goes into more detail of some of the things we discussed: Software development cults tend to create sacred cows: habits and idioms
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 5:22 PM

ActiveRecord::Migration

When I wrote about the Dual Schema problem a few weeks ago, I specifically wrote that the Rails model is backwards because it derives the in-memory schema from the database schema. While I still believe that, Rails' ActiveRecord::Migration library does
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:46 PM

Apparently, Microsoft Delivered on Enterprise 2.0 Three Years Ago

In the past few weeks, there’s been a major uptick in discussion about Web 2.0 / Enterprise convergence. Andrew McAfee has a new article on what he calls Enterprise 2.0. Dion’s got an entire blog on the subject, though he thinks it should be called Enterprise
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Friday, April 14, 2006 11:07 PM

Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

Even if you don't care a lick about Ruby , you should read Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby . It is by far the most facinating (and freaky) technical book I've ever read.
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Friday, April 14, 2006 9:42 AM

Talking Dynamic Lanugages with Neal Ford

I spent a couple of hours chatting with Neal Ford from ThoughtWorks yesterday. Ted Neward had virtually introduced us a few months ago and he was in town for MTS , so he arranged a meeting. I had asked Ted to introduce me to some dynamic language folks
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Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:48 PM

LINQ + WAP == Coolness

I never really missed Web Application Project support in VS05 until I realized what I could do with it. I've been experimenting with LINQ and wanted to be able to use it in a web application I'm prototyping. Under the file system model, there's no easy
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Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:59 PM

RubyNet Project

Having written about Ruby in the scope of the Compiler Dev Lab and the Dual Schema Problem , I was interested to come across the Ruby.NET project from Queensland University of Technology . From the Ruby.NET home page: Our goal is to create a compiler
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