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Mar 21
I've Been Posting To The Meshverse Journal
I've been pretty quiet but busy through the winter but it's almost spring :-) I will sometimes crosspost here but if you want to stay in the MJ flow follow it on Twitter or FriendFeed. Alternately if you want the full text subscribe to the blog.
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Sep 4
Before The Web: My Encounters With The 3 Spin Doctors
A brief intro to how satellite communications paved the way for the web. From Lazy Bird RisingComments [0]
Sep 4
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What It Is: Amiri Baraka Recites Rhythm Travel
I've never had the pleasure of meeting the one and only Amiri Baraka but I swear I saw him peepin in the window of my lab! Enjoy what is about the best 1 page piece of sci-fi I've ever read :-)
Amiri Baraka: Rhythm Travel by Pen American Center
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Sep 4
Scopes - An Interactive Tool for Smalltalk
Both beginning and expert Smalltalk programmers should find Scopes useful.
I recently came across a reference to a powerful observation
Trying to get your head around smalltalk without using the IDE is like going to Paris and eating at McDonalds. Sure, you’re in Paris, but you aren’t really exposing yourself to what it’s all about.
This point could be made even stronger by substituting “creating and interacting with objects” for “using the IDE” because too often, the role of IDE is reduced to browsing and editing source code. A fundamental way of interacting with objects is by examining their properties. One of the early Smalltalk-80 books, The Interactive Programming Environment(available here) devotes an entire chapter to the Inspector. In Smalltalk Programming for Windows we said:
Next to the CHB, the Inspector is the most useful window in the Smalltalk /V for Windows environment.
However for complex objects, the process of opening and navigating multiple inspectors becomes unweildy. In Squeak the ObjectExplorer emerged in large part to address this problem. In recent releases, ObjectExplorer gained icons which make it even more useful but in some situations ObjectExplorer is overkill. Often one is examining an object but not interested in all or any of its instance variables. For example with Morphs, one is often most interested in the hierarchical structure. MorphHierarchy does a nice job in this regard but is hard-wired to view the entire Morph tree starting with the World. More significantly, MorphHierarchy doesn’t provide a workspace and menu to facilitate interaction, nor does it work with non-Morph objects. Scopes are intended to provide a flexible tool that combines the best of all worlds. The current code is in mixed state of development. Scopes have been simplified and extracted from earlier environments I’d created. CompositeScopes are in solid beta form and very useful right now
but ObjectScopes have much more work to do in their current incarnation. ObjectSccopes are more sophisticated and holistic because the only distinction made amongst properties is whether or not they are executable. Scopes also provide a means of filtering which objects and properties are shown. I’ll post updates here as they occur.
Scopes: Beyond The Inspector and Object Explorer « The Smalltalk Journal
Feedback is encouraged!
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Aug 31
Shifting The Flow Part 2 - Bumps in the road
Some formatting and popped up in the last post.
The really interesting thing about the posts I'm making now is that one post appears in many places automatically. In my last post I linked to the posts on lrgriot but it also went to other sites like http://www.twitter.com/meshverseIt's worth the price so fasten your seatbelts. :-)
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Aug 31
Shifting The Flow
<p>I have a great many areas of activity and interest that overlap but also need multiple outlets.</p>In addition folks who may be interested in my work are scattered across different social networks. I have over the past decade experimented with many different tools to help get information to the right people at the right time in a manner they are familiar with. This tends to be a very time consuming task so I've also been developing a few tools of my own which the recent growth of Facebook, Twitter and now Posterous has created a perfect storm for. So in the coming days and weeks you'll be seeing a new surge in activity from me across multiple networks - some of which will dive into the details of what this new flow is about and how you can tap into it.<p>Right now, you can follow my work here or on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and Posterous. </p>
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Aug 18
Yet Another Visual Twitter Test Post
I was impressed with:
Mailana's Awesome Visual Twitter Explorer
This is so cool. Check out my network via Mailana.
So you can put in your Twitter handle, your location or a search term like say "e-learning" and you get this awesome visual map back.
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Aug 18
Another Visual Twitter Test Post
I was impressed with:
Mailana's Awesome Visual Twitter Explorer
This is so cool. Check out my network via Mailana.
So you can put in your Twitter handle, your location or a search term like say "e-learning" and you get this awesome visual map back.
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Aug 18
Another Visual Twitter Test Post
Mailana's Awesome Visual Twitter Explorer
This is so cool. Check out my network via Mailana.
So you can put in your Twitter handle, your location or a search term like say "e-learning" and you get this awesome visual map back.
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