Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog

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Showing posts from 2007

December 30, 2007

2008 predictions

December 28, 2007

Very cool: backing up Google Office documents and outsourcing infrastructure

December 14, 2007

Consulting and working at home: when does the work day end?

December 08, 2007

Hiding source code: so bad!

December 08, 2007

I am updating CookingSpace.com to Rails 2.0.x

December 06, 2007

Back online after my vacation

November 16, 2007

Google's view of UI development: do it in Java

November 02, 2007

Quality Open Source: Squeak 3.9 final and new Seaside 2.8

November 02, 2007

Software development: smaller is better

October 31, 2007

OS X Leopard

October 25, 2007

ZFS: disuptive technology?

October 23, 2007

NetBeans 6.0 beta 2 is released

October 19, 2007

Ruby debuggers

October 19, 2007

Netbeans IDE 6.0 Beta 1: (J)Ruby and Rails support is looking good; mixed experience with IntelliJ 7.0 + Ruby plugin

October 16, 2007

"100% Rails all the way, baby!"

October 12, 2007

It is important to check web sites and web applications for usability by readers with disabilities

October 12, 2007

Wow: what a difference caching makes!

October 09, 2007

Joost: Internet TV done the right way

October 02, 2007

More fun with JRuby: using the PowerLoom reasoning system

October 02, 2007

Good PDF book: "Ferret" by David Balmain

September 30, 2007

Plain text and other simple document types

September 26, 2007

I am loving Amazon's new MP3 musc store

September 25, 2007

"Why would you use Ruby when you could use Smalltalk???"

September 24, 2007

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not crazy, but his speech irritated me today

September 23, 2007

Interesting article on graph/lattice theory leads me to a good looking library

September 22, 2007

Glassfish v2: Update Center and port 4848 Web Admin are cool, but...

September 22, 2007

Programming languages: advantages of both specialization and being a generalist

September 21, 2007

Great combination: nginx, Mongrel, and Rails for secure HTTPS

September 20, 2007

JRuby and Jython: a one way street?

September 18, 2007

1. Shameful behavior: ruining our grandchildren's lives because of our generation's greed 2. a story about my Grandmother

September 18, 2007

The New York Times 'gets it'

September 18, 2007

Chris Petrilli's second brain

September 17, 2007

Classic "slip of the tongue"

September 10, 2007

IBM's support for OpenOffice.org is important

August 29, 2007

Good book: "Programming Collective Intelligence"

August 25, 2007

Gambit-C Scheme 4.0 final released today

August 10, 2007

Erlang 'mindshare'

August 01, 2007

Franz Allegro Common Lisp 8.1 has been released

"Getting Stuff Done" GMail FireFox plugin

Adoption of GPL v3: looking good

The shoe-maker's family has no shoes?

Squeak Smalltalk 'goodness'

REST rules

Fiat currencies like the US dollar

Education is a life long path

I upgraded my open source projects to use version 3 of the GPL and LGPL today

I revisted the scene of my 2/2/2006 accident today

My best Ruby coding hint

"Everything is Miscellaneous" - book review

Why GPL version 3 is important

Hibernate Search: good integration of Lucene and Hibernate

Cool: Ruby Google GData client library

Fantasy that may likely come true: Prometeus (experience is the new reality)

Using Lucene with JRuby

GMail PowerPoint file viewing

Apple Safari for Windows

JRuby 1.0 released

Why the complaints over purchaser's name embedded in Apple's non-DRMed music?

Emacs 22.1 is released - first major update in 5 years

The URL for this blog has changed

Is the Common Lisp 'loop' macro evil?

Google Gears: a sea change for web applications?

Why the ODF is better than Microsoft's document formats

Data representations: the more the better

Use of arrays considered harmful?

Interesting technology: AllegroGraph

My article "A Java Developer's Guide to Ruby" was just published

Deploying a Squeak + Seaside web application to a Linux server in 3 easy steps

How much does web framework choice really matter?

The Semantic Web, Parrots, and AI

Landscape page layout orientation should be the new standard

Can't believe I missed this Unix utility: screen

Review of Nokia N800 'web pad'

Google Data APIs

Interesting way to build rich client web applications: mjt

Less is more: advantages of compact programming languages

GWT and Seaside: steps in the right direction for increasing developer productivity

Balancing the use of Open Source (especially GPL) and proprietary software

Apollo alpha released to developers: offline enabled web applications

Factor

metaweb.com and freebase.com

Trip down memory lane: I installed Minix 3 tonight

I have released some NLP (natural language processing) tools with a LGPL license

Integrating PHP and Ruby with Java server side deployments