Yesterday was not nearly as full of a day for me, partly due to technical difficulties. I started out the day with James Golick‘s tutorial on dynamic languages. Unfortunately he couldn’t get the projector working due to issues with his MacBook. Since it was a tutorial the projector was essential, so after a several attempts [...]
I’m reclining in bed with a beer and I have to be up in seven hours. Today was a long but good day. I enjoyed the talks and my wander through the city. I sat through three keynotes, ate poutine with smoked meat on it, visited SAQ, checked out the Eaton Centre and had a [...]
I spoke to Dan after his presentation about the Lively Kernel. The talk started out with building his hacker cred through childhood stories. Most of talk was already covered by the website. After the presentation, I asked two questions: Was there any effort to build a translation layer between a desktop GUI toolkit (for example, [...]
Lost my notes due to wifi failure. Here’s what I remember. Marty is the speaker. He’s from Radialpoint formerly known as Zero Knowledge Systems, was employee #1 and helped build up from startup to medium sized enterprise. Zero Knowledge based off the crypto proof. Learning is essentially unlimited at the beginning of the career. Innovator’s [...]
When talking about microblogging I often see this question asked: “What can you say in 140 characters?” My answer is “Maybe a sentence, sometimes with a citation.” That falls within 140 characters but it’s missing too much, which is why I’m writing this short post. Most people I talk to hear “microblogging” and put too [...]
I’ve always been interested in public domain content as a way of reducing cost for students and also as a fertile ground to build new content. I thought that I was in the loop when it came to copyright-expired content. Seems I missed a couple of very interesting developments. First of all, there’s a public [...]
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