Everyone, I'm not sure whom I should thank aside Andy and Ivan for organizing a great conference last Saturday. I much enjoyed my time with you all, I got a...
PoMoPro - the first international conference on postmodern programming Date: Sat 25th November (LONDON) BCS SPA Specialist Group Venue: BCS Davidson Building,...
...get busy with its built-in embedded functional language http://www.juiceanalytics.com/weblog/?p=239 What's nice about this is that it's real users finding...
Brian Marick has written that we are now in the third age of software development: The Age of the Scrapheap [1]. He suggests a Dump Picking [2] of the Month...
http://www.brainhz.com/underhanded/ Although very different from scrapheap challenge, I like the 'deliberately using things in ways they shouldn't be' angle. ...
I've updated the postmodernprogramming.org site with a report by Andrew Eland of the Scrapheap Challenge workshop he ran inside Google at the end of last year....
This caught my eye on reddit: http://epsilondelta.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/programming-like-a-mathematician-ii-learning-new-languages/ My antennae began to...
So, I was re-reading Programming Pearls (2nd ed.) One problem that Bently addresses (in Column 12) is that of selcting n from m items at random. There's some...
http://www.microformats.org/ From http://www.microformats.org/about/: "Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open...
http://www.waterfall2006.com/ Obviously from the XP community, but I think it's a pretty good parody of high-modernism too: """ As I sat their daydreaming, I...
Greetings, If you've not already read it, Spolsky has a post (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html) up on what the hard problems...
http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_index.html "The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous...
having just been there, the perfect venue for the second workshop has to be Las Vegas. It's got a jumble of styles reinterpreting the world and overlaying a...
Greetings! I stumbled across this group via Nat's blog, and immediately subscribed. I've blogged on the topic twice myself, and, if any of you take the time...
http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2005/12/lets-get-real-database.html A nice example of adapting something good enough to get some traction now, then later trying...
I'm a life long fan of The Great Egg Race and similar programmes. IMHO Scrap heap challenge was a great leap forward, mainly because of one simple thing: The...
One of the lessons from the Scrapheap Challenge was how important example code is compared to reference documentation to help programmers learn how to use a...
In this article (http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/livschitz2_qa.html) Victoria Livschitz ponders the notion that "Individual projects...
Hi all just came across this: http://www.scrapyardchallenge.com/ ... The OOPSLA workshop was rather more useful, but this is pointlessly cool... I wonder if we...
"The architects of modern companies are repeating the errors of the architects of modern buildings. Perhaps it is time to develop a theory of post-modern...
Hello folks, I'm looking for a venue for PoMoPro - the first international conference on postmodern programming. It should: -be in London -have one room that...
In two weeks there is a large computer fair in the Netherlands. As a member of a group called c-gg (the c sig) I took upon me the task to promote multi...
I hate threaded media. Ivan, "predjudices" in an interesting word to use as regards my strong negative feelings for the term "postmodern"...do you really think...
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