CrossTech

Not specifically publishing-related, but here is a fun rant interview with Alan Kay titled The PC Must Be Revamped—Now.

My favorite bit...

"...in the last few years I've been asking computer scientists and programmers whether they've ever typed E-N-G-E-L-B-A-R-T into Google-and none of them have. I don't think you could find a physicist who has not gone back and tried to find out what Newton actually did. It's unimaginable. Yet the computing profession acts as if there isn't anything to learn from the past, so most people haven't gone back and referenced what Engelbart thought. "

Posted by Geoffrey Bilder at 09:41 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Rob Cornelius has a practical little demo of using Yahoo! pipes against some Ingenta feeds.

Like Tony, I keep experiencing speed/stability problems while accessing pipes so I haven't yet become a crack-pipes-head.

Posted by Geoffrey Bilder at 08:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Um, well. Seems according to O'Reilly Ruby that Ruby is now a mainstream language.

"The Ruby programming language just made the A-list on the TIOBE Programming Community Index, and Ruby is now listed as a mainstream programming language. For the past three or four years Ruby has consistently placed in the high 20’s in this index, but is now placed as the 13th most popular programming language!"

(No language wars, but I am, I will confess, a big admirer - for some time.)

Posted by Tony Hammond at 06:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)