I was reading some Free Software-related interviews tonight, and I came across this article about how Novell hired Jeremy Allison, the lead developer of Samba.
Samba, for those who don’t know is a piece of software that lets non-Windows computers share files with Windows computers. That might sound boring, but what actually makes [...]
Archive for May, 2006
Microsoft, Carrion
27May06Capstone… nearly complete
26May06I am presenting my Capstone tomorrow… the final piece of work I need to do to complete my degree. It’s the culmination of many months of work, and I’m excited and relieved to be finished.
Well, nearly finished. I need to run through my presentation before I go to bed, and I have a [...]
Google, Pimp
24May06I was accepted to Google Summer of Code! I really want to write more about what I’m going to be doing and I really want to get started….
… but I am presenting my Capstone in two days, and that’s occupying a rather large slice of my attention.
So, good news. I have [...]
Google Whore
21May06I just noticed that this site is #1 when you search Google for snowed in. That’s right, I beat out Hanson’s 1997 Christmas album by the same name.
Mmm-bop… mm-bop bah…
Piaget
20May06I am trying to finish up my BusyBodies paper, and I came across a neat passage in an article by Seymour Papert about Jean Piaget:
In one of his most famous experiments, Piaget asked children, “What makes the wind?” What follows is a typical Piagetian dialogue:
Piaget: What makes the wind?
Julia (age 5): The trees.
Piaget: How [...]
Cake Factory!
17May06This is exciting: I have my first working prototype of BusyBodies. And it’s now at the point where a non-computer geek can start to see what it is. So, check it out:
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I realize it’s all just red, white, and blue boxes, but just imagine: you’re in a cake factory. There are strawberry [...]
Skype announced today that they are offering free phone calls from Skype users to any phone in the US and Canada through the end of the year. That means that if you have Skype phone, you can make long distance calls from your home to any phone in the US.
If you have [...]
By way of explanation
15May06I’m really enjoying doing test-driven development. For those of you who don’t know what that is (and care to learn), test-driven development is a different way of writing software that makes it easier to track down bugs (defects) in your software.
That sounds boring, but it’s really not. Imagine I want to write a [...]
How do I get to work church?
14May06
Some small part of me feels like the fact that the busses don’t run on Sundays is a violation of my right to free religious expression.
I think it’s the whiny part.
It looks like a game!
13May06It’s an exciting day! Today I finally created my first two BusyBodies. They are the Button Pusher and the Shover. The Button Pusher can push the Shover’s button. They work well together:
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And they work well onscreen! I realize it requires some imagination to see these as robots in a cake [...]
