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Online IDEs and Freedom

06Jun07

Google released Google Mashup Editor today, which is an online IDE in the spirit of Forkolator. Google Docs is pretty similar to a design I had been playing with too. I guess Google and I have similar goals. The difference is, they implement their ideas, and I often just blog about mine.
But [...]

Dogfood, bootstraps, and working code

24Apr07

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This is version 0.2 of ForkCode, the web-based IDE that I’m working on. IDE is an acronym that means “software for making software”.
There are a bunch of fun geeky [...]

Turducken, Part 2

13Apr07

Here’s another draft of my paper from last quarter. Still not finished, but hopefully will be done tomorrow. Just need to edit, smooth things out, add some lit review (including Von Neuman, Holland) and explain the last little bit about how the “DNA” gets copied.
Apologies to everyone to whom none of this makes sense. [...]

Turducken

18Mar07

This is an early draft of a paper I’m working on. It’s late, unfortunately, but I want to post what I’ve got so far for my classmates to check out before our final presentations, so I’m posting it here.
The goal of this project is to design an ALife system that has a good chance [...]

The future of GNOME

18Mar07

Here are a few thoughts on where I think the free software desktop needs to go. Apologies to the non-geeks reading this. I’d love to write this up for a broader audience, but I don’t have time right now and I just wanted to get the ideas on paper.
GNOME, and most of the [...]


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