Recent
Jul 01 2009
→ A tale of two programmers
• A nice parable related to the Alan Kay invention link yesterday. Finding the correct representation of a problem is key to solving it easily.
Jun 30 2009
Jun 29 2009
→ Andrew Kennedy's Blog : Units of Measure in F
• Andrew Kennedy introduces F#’s marvelous ‘Units of Measure’ typing system.
Jun 28 2009
→ F# Sequence Expressions
• Don Syme explains how Sequence expressions work in F#.
Jun 25 2009
→ The Web vs. the Fallacies
• Tim Bray looks at The Fallacies of Distributed Systems in terms of the web.
Jun 07 2009
→ Intent in Conflict Resolution
• “…Setting a suitable intent means aiming for IMO a rather narrow window. Set the intent too low, and there’s no tension. Also, it’s very difficult to come up with a compromise because the stakes are already so low. Set it too high, and you run the risk of tripping the players’ risk aversion…”
May 28 2009
→ RPG Rules and Premise
• Luke Crane (creator of Burning Wheel, Burning Empires and Mouse Guard RPGs) talks about the disconnect between game premise and rules in may RPGs and why he tries to marry the two together
May 26 2009
Being about code
GitHub didn’t catch on because of Git. It may have helped, but it wasn’t the primary catalyst.
GitHub caught on because it’s about code. Sharing, finding, and contributing code.
Rubyforge and Sourceforge aren’t about code. They never were.
—defunkt’s Gist
GitHub has been described as a social networking site. I think this is true, except that its the code that is social rather than the people. And it really works.
May 22 2009
→ Monads, IO and TypeClasses.
• Conal Elliott’s comment on Reddit about the common confusion between IO and Monads in Haskell.
May 19 2009
→ The GM's Jobs - Burning Wheel
• Judd and others thinking about what the GM’s job is in the Burning Wheel RPG
May 12 2009
→ ZenQueue
• A light weight network queue implementation written in python.
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