These are the slides for the talk I’m giving at the Maemo Barcelona Long Weekend on how to develop desktop widgets for the Nokia N900:
My first Maemo desktop widget
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My first Maemo desktop widget
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Gits won
Friday, December 19th, 2008
One consequence of the NULL historical memory our trade has is that we get to see Worse is Better replayed from time to time. I’ve seen it on languages, editors, kernels, windowing systems…
This time it’s distributed version control systems, with discussions flaring up the Internet to decide which shall be The One DVCS to Rule […]
Arc is not a lot, but could it be?
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
So, Arc is out, in a very alpha form. Ignoring the whole debate over Unicode support, it seems that Arc is just a bunch of abbreviations and nice shortcuts on top of MzScheme.
Many people where expecting a lot more, but Paul Graham had it very difficult. For, you see, Lisp as a language can’t be […]
I have been a WTF programmer
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
I have been a WTF programmer. Yes, I confess it. Although I bow to the Beautiful Code gods, and I spend my free time reading Lambda the Ultimate, there’s still this black spot on my resume. I am one of they. Today as I read 2007 best coding practices on WTF, I discovered myself relating […]
Some thoughts on Newspeak
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Gilad Bracha is working on a Smalltalk-derived language. I found some information via Lambda the Ultimate.
Languages that support both inheritance and nesting of declarations define method lookup to first climb up the inheritance hierarchy and then recurse up the lexical hierarchy. We discuss weaknesses of this approach, present alternatives, and illustrate a preferred semantics as […]