rho.org.ukRob Hague's Website (it's not a blog, honest).ThisService- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Today, John Gruber mentioned a utility called ThisService, which seems to offer the same sort of thing as SilverService, in a slightly different way. This suggests that there's some interest in the idea, so I might look into dusting off the latter. (If you're interested, mail me and let me know.)http://www.rho.org.uk/2007/01/25#thisservice Surprise Delivery- (Found July 15, 2008 ) I got into work this morning to find a package on my desk - PLAY.COM had delivered my new DS Lite. This came as something of a surprise, as the official European release date is tomorrow. Not that I'm complaining - it means I get to play Mario Kart DS, which PLAY shipped separately last week.http://www.rho.org.uk/2006/06/22#nintendodslite Raising The Drunken Rant Bar- (Found July 15, 2008 ) For the last week or so, I've been dipping into Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants, a disorganised collection of essays written by Steve Yegge, a software engineer at Amazon and now Google. He has lots to say on various aspects of programming, ranging from interviewing to Emacs to lanugauges to continued learning. All good stuff, and he even references Cthulhu and Amber. (Actually, I'm slightly miffed that he's beaten me to the AmberLisp simile that's been rolling around in my brain for a while...http://www.rho.org.uk/2006/03/28#steveysdrunkenblogrants When The Long Tail Wags The Dog- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Dan Bricklin (of VisiCalc fame) has posted When The Long Tail Wags The Dog, an interesting essay on the appeal of general purpose applications (e.g., spreadsheets) compared to specialised ones for popular cases (e.g., tax calculation). His argument is that, given that you can only learn a finite number of tools, you're going to pick at least some general purpose ones, as those are more likely to fulfill your specific needs when said needs diverge from the popular. My view is that he doesn't...http://www.rho.org.uk/2006/02/20#whenthelongtailwagsthedog The BDFL Has My Phone!- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Guido van Rossum has just got the same phone that I have - the excellent Nokia 6630. He's raving about the Python port for Series 60, so I may have to actually get round to using it as opposed to merely having the icon sat in the menu. Actually, I think this will really come into its own when Nokia introduce the E-series in a few months time; two of the models have full QWERTY keyboards (one Blackberry-style, the other folding), which will make using Python (and PuTTY) on the phone a whole lot..http://www.rho.org.uk/2006/02/14#bdflphone |