Literate Programming in XML

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pyWeb Literate Programming by slott on
2002/06/07

pyWeb Literate Programming by slott on
2002/06/07 06/10/2002 09:25 AM

Verbal, if not literate.

Verbal, if not literate. 09/10/2004 05:51 AM
Sure, it's just more Bush-bashing, but it's gussied up durn pretty. Philip Gourevitch on Bushspeak.

He is grossly underestimated as an orator by those who presume that good grammar, rigorous logic, and a solid command of the facts are the essential ingredients of political persuasion, and that the absence of these skills indicates a lack of intelligence. Although Bush is no intellectual, and proud of it, he is quick and clever, and, for all his notorious malapropisms, abuses of syntax, and manglings or reinventions of vocabulary, his intelligence is—if not especially literate—acutely verbal.

Leo: Literate Editor with Outlines

Leo: Literate Editor with Outlines 10/29/2003 11:26 AM
Leo 4.0.4 released

America's Most Literate Cities

America's Most Literate Cities 12/08/2003 05:53 AM
America's Most Literate Cities
http://www.uww.edu/cities/

This study, compiled in summer 2003, pieces together a literacy profile of America's 64 largest cities, drawing from U.S. Census data, newspaper circulation rates, library resources, publishers and other public documents. The study, authored by University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Chancellor and education Professor Jack Miller, draws on statistics from five categories and 13 different measures of literacy to provide a ranking for all cities with a population of 250,000 or more. The Top 10:

1) Minneapolis, MN
2) Seattle, WA
3) Denver, CO
4) Atlanta, GA
5) San Francisco, CA
6) Pittsburgh, PA
7) Washington, DC
8) Louisville, KY
9) Portland, OR
10) Cincinnati, OH

"Minneapolis again ranked as most
literate city"

"Minneapolis again ranked as most
literate city" 08/04/2004 03:30 PM

Ranks of computer literate professionals
grow by 1,100

Ranks of computer literate professionals
grow by 1,100 08/08/2004 05:28 PM
Jordan Times Aug 8 2004 8:34PM GMT

Fur for iPods; a Bluetooth rifle; Mac
users are more literate

Fur for iPods; a Bluetooth rifle; Mac
users are more literate 08/06/2004 09:43 AM
Mac User Aug 6 2004 12:48PM GMT

Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children

Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children 04/09/2004 08:02 PM
If one trait sets Finland apart from many other countries, it is the quality and social standing of its teachers.

C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3

C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 01/28/2004 02:35 PM

Programming PHP

Programming PHP 12/02/2002 01:17 PM
Coauthored by the father of PHP himself, this book is a good introduction to the language, and a fairly good introduction to surrounding technologies. If you need a good starting book, this could be the one.

Day by Day Programming

Day by Day Programming 09/02/2004 04:08 AM
...while working on the WSX update, added the following to the code: else if (...) { // [application name removed] engineers deserve a 3 liter (that is about 101 fl. oz. for you Americans) // enema filled with stainless needles and glicerine for their programming and error validation ...

DevShed: Programming with PHP and GTK
(Pt. 1)

DevShed: Programming with PHP and GTK
(Pt. 1) 08/17/2004 07:41 AM
If you've been wondering what all the talk about PHP and GTK has been lately, but haven't had a chance to get into the code - DevShed just might have something for you. In their new posting, Programming with PHP and GTK, Part 1 they start an introductory series to help newcomers get their feet wet.

Core PHP Programming

Core PHP Programming 01/16/2004 10:57 AM

Linux Programming by Example

Linux Programming by Example 04/27/2004 01:14 PM

Pair Programming

Pair Programming 10/29/2003 12:12 AM

I've spent a few hours over the last two days pair programming with Adrian. We're working on a pretty huge project at the moment, and we've just started work on the coding phase, overlapping the design phase. I had tried pair programming a few times before with some success, but this time in particular the benefits of the approach were crystal clear. In total, we've defined 4 database tables, a number of functions and a simple class. Working separately we would almost certainly have created more lines of code. However...

• The code we have produced is free of bugs. That's a pretty bold claim to make, but every line has been extensively discussed, tested and looked over by two pairs of eyes.
• The naming conventions for both the Python code and the SQL are consistent and well thought out. We're both happy with them, we both understand why the names have been chosen and we both know the naming style well enough to continue it throughout the project.
• The coding style itself is ultra-clean and approved by both of us. We have a preference now for everything from quoting styles to whether or not a docstring should finish in a full-stop (it shouldn't). We also know enough to keep these standards going for the rest of the project.
• We learnt stuff from each other. KDE shortcuts, new features in Python 2.3, neat ways of laying out SQL statements, Python functional programming idioms.
• We started coding, or at least started discussing the code, at the time we had scheduled for the start. There was no procrastination.
• At no point did either of us check our email or check any blogs. productivity++!
• We both know the code that we have written inside out and back to front.

Altogether they have been highly productive and successful sessions. Our plan now is to pair program the system core, then work separately on the additional modules that don't have major dependencies on each other. There are only two of us developers working on the project so pair programming the whole thing isn't really practical, but the benefits of working together the core modules are obvious.

One last thing: it was a lot of fun!

Is programming dead?

Is programming dead? 04/26/2004 08:56 AM
ZDNet Apr 26 2004 1:08PM GMT

The Art of Unix Programming

The Art of Unix Programming 10/30/2003 11:48 PM

Programming Humor

Programming Humor 06/05/2004 05:52 AM

Code Humor Challenge: Some pretty funny examples of developers trying to be funny. People are submitting hundreds of comments of funny code they wrote and tried to get (or succeeded in getting) into production.

One of my previous employers had, for historical reasons, the requirement that all class names be prefixed with "Mc" (McUser, McCheckbox, etc.). I created the class McNugget, complete with methods like McNugget.dip(McNugget.BBQ_SAUCE).

This one's pretty good too:

Disco = Uncool

Do Until Disco = Cool

if Year gt 1970 And Year lt 1978 then

GetDownAndDance
Disco = Cool

Else

MockDiscoDancers

End if

Loop

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Advanced PHP Programming

Advanced PHP Programming 06/24/2004 04:27 PM

XP (Xtreme Programming)

XP (Xtreme Programming) 05/15/2004 05:59 AM

Core PHP Programming 3rd ed

Core PHP Programming 3rd ed 12/02/2003 12:43 AM
A large (1000+ pages) book containing all you need to know about PHP5 and a dozen of related subjects. Written by Leon Atkinson and Zeev Suraski.

programming note

programming note 11/12/2003 11:31 PM
The two entries that follow were written this afternoon during a big old Thunderstorm. We've been without power for about...

Inquiry into BBC One programming

Inquiry into BBC One programming 07/13/2004 05:28 AM
BBC governors order an inquiry into BBC One's peak time schedules amid concern about programme quality.

Primate Programming

Primate Programming 11/10/2003 11:16 PM
From Jeffrey Tarter comes new of an important new business model for outsourcing software development. Joe Grossberg thinks the Primate Programming page has "racist overtones." I can see that way of taking it, although (I hope obviously) that's not how I took it. I take it as being about the commodification of software development and a Dilbert-esque swipe at the gullibility and irresponsibility of pointy-haired bosses....

Embedded SQL programming

Embedded SQL programming 04/29/2004 09:48 PM

TCL/TK Programming Environment

TCL/TK Programming Environment 07/31/2004 08:56 AM
Version 1.01 released

Is UNIX programming an art?

Is UNIX programming an art? 10/31/2003 11:41 AM
The Register Oct 31 2003 10:48AM ET

Need a Programming Project?

Need a Programming Project? 02/06/2003 10:45 AM
Need a Programming Project? It has always seemed to me that the skills of a technical person increase in direct proportion to the projects they tackle. Now that makes sense of course. You work more and tackle harder projects and then you get better. Pretty simple, right? Actually no. What happens when you don't have a project? For example, you might work as a systems administrator and not realyl have the opportunity to write code for work. Or your current code at work might be in a maintenance mode and you might no longer be learning. Or you might want to learn a new language. What then? Where can you find a project? My recommendation -- look at the vast world of "abandonware". That's right, abandonware -- the vast treasure trove of open source projects that have been started, some code has been released and then .... nothing. All too often we start a project, write some code, register it with source forge, get going and then RLH or Real Life Happens. You lose a job or get a new job or meet a girl (or guy; hey I'm politically correct) or whatever. And what happens is the Source Forge servers just keep hosting the files in the hope that either the original owner will return or someone new might start to care again. And, as long as the open source license model allows you, you can take those files, and start your own project. Yes I know that none of us want to start from someone else's code. And that we all can do it better. So what? In the long run what matters, as it always does, is actually shipping. If starting from someone else's foundation gets you there faster -- and you a) can work with it and b) it isn't a disaster -- then does it really matter? One thing that I've seen with a lot of open source projects is that they seem to die what I call "the death of the framework". I.e. the person or team spends so much time getting the framework setup that they get so exhausted by the time the application level code gets started, they just don't have the energy. By coming into an existing framework and being able to focus (mostly) on the application, you can avoid this type of issue. So how do you find some abandonware to start from? Well you want to begin at either Source Forge or Freshmeat and then look at the Software Map which lets you view by Application, by Language, Development Status, etc. I started here with an Alpha development status (6998 projects). And then since I work mostly in PHP, I added that as a filter bringing me to here (5867 projects). And then I selected Topic and then Communications to get here (1201 projects). Now assuming that I wanted to really write a php communications project from someone else's abandonware, I would start to examine this list of projects until I found a starting point. Since Source Forge puts the most active projects at the beginning of the list, drill into the middle of it to find something that isn't being actively extended. Download the code, evaluate it and get started. Note: I think that there may be an issue with the Source Forge filtering mechanism. As I examined the last list of resumes, it clearly had entries that didn't have all the specified criteria despite the appearance of working. No matter but I think you get the basic concept -- you don't have to start from scratch and abandonware is a great way to boost your skills.

Programming Microcontrollers With Mac

Programming Microcontrollers With Mac 09/22/2004 02:55 PM

XL Programming Language

XL Programming Language 09/25/2004 03:55 PM
XL Compiler version 0

Coggeshall.org: OO Programming in PHP 5

Coggeshall.org: OO Programming in PHP 5 09/24/2004 07:42 AM
With more of his slides from the php|works conference, John Coggeshall has posted this listing of his major talks in the past year (or so).

Web Programming in Python

Web Programming in Python 09/05/2002 01:17 AM
Unix Review reviews the book:Web Programming in Python: Techniques for Integrating Linux, Apache, and MySQL."On the whole, though, WPIP pleasantly surprised me as a Python tutorial. The authors repeatedly show a knack for communicating the essentials of Python functionality in an understandable and succinct manner."

Programming in Starbucks

Programming in Starbucks 06/17/2005 04:55 PM

We got over the hump, it was a bit of a panic at first, but I had made a change on the server at 5AM yesterday and didn't test it properly, and when the 25 new users showed up early on the evening of the 16th, well, that's the condition that failed. And my Internet access at home has been really flaky during the day, so it was down when we hit the problem, so I had to quickly drive to Starbucks to get online.

The good news is that I am actually able to get work done this way, so when I it the road again on July 1, I will be able to continue to move forward on this software, by programming in hotel rooms, Starbucks, public libraries, etc. Internet access is really starting to get ubiquitous.

The Qu Programming Language 1.01

The Qu Programming Language 1.01 09/16/2004 09:22 PM
A full-featured object oriented programming language.

The Programming Soviet

The Programming Soviet 07/08/2002 02:38 AM
I had an aunt and uncle who were Communists until the end. They saw any flaw in the capitalist sytem as fatal, and they saw hope in the most tired and discredited leaders and systems (my uncle wrote an exultant pamphlet about Yugoslavia under Tito).

I am reminded of my aunt and uncle whenever I read an anti-Microsoft tirade from Doc Searls or Eric Raymond or another card-carrying command-line zealot from the programming Soviet. To these true believers, any Microsoft imperfection spells imminent collapse for the Redmond bourgeoisie. Comes the revolution, it will be from each according to his Open Source and to each according to his Unix. -- Arnold Kling

I don't agree with everything that Arnold says, but it's a thought provoking piece.

"zeldman.blsu"

Programming in Objective-C

Programming in Objective-C 01/24/2004 12:35 PM
Programming in Objective-C is a concise, carefully written tutorial on the basics of Objective-C and object-oriented programming. The book makes no assumption about prior experience with object-oriented programming languages or with the C language (upon which Objective-C is based).

PHP Programming Contests

PHP Programming Contests 03/14/2003 01:08 PM
PHP-Editors.com released their first 'PHP Programming Contests' on 10th March. Contest 1A is aimed at PHP Beginners and Contest 1B to more profession programmers. This is your chance to show the world your PHP skills and win some cool prizes into the bargain. Sponsors providing prizes include Zend Technologies, Nusphere, Macromedia, PHP|Arch, ThinkGeek and vBulletin. Entries due in by midnight 7th April 2003 (GMT).

The Qu Programming Language 1.00

The Qu Programming Language 1.00 09/06/2004 02:40 PM
A full-featured object oriented programming language.

PHP Programming for Windows

PHP Programming for Windows 07/01/2002 08:29 AM
Overall, this book is probably a long awaited and valuable resource for Windows developers. If you are developing with PHP for Windows and want to take the most of Windows specific resources, this is probably the best starting point you may find now and so it is certainly a good investment.
Grok Description matches for Literate Programming in XML
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Internet becomes channel in search for
kin

Internet becomes channel in search for
kin 12/30/2004 08:42 AM
Sun-sentinel.com - Thu Dec 30, 11:24 am GMT

Buffy

Buffy 12/17/2002 09:54 PM
Why do I have the feeling that the principal on Buffy will be a key character for this season?

Internet is terrorists' channel of
choice

Internet is terrorists' channel of
choice 06/29/2004 08:10 PM
Times of India Jun 30 2004 0:40AM GMT

Internet, terrorists' communication
channel

Internet, terrorists' communication
channel 06/29/2004 10:50 AM
Hindustan Times Jun 29 2004 1:49PM GMT

Internet Is Extremists' Channel of
Choice

Internet Is Extremists' Channel of
Choice 06/25/2004 01:33 PM
AP via Newsday Jun 25 2004 5:02PM GMT

Porn Channel to Revolutionize Internet
TV

Porn Channel to Revolutionize Internet
TV 12/28/2004 05:35 AM
Addict3d.org Dec 28 2004 8:41AM GMT

Pacific Internet gives voice to channel

Pacific Internet gives voice to channel 04/16/2005 05:47 AM
iTnews Apr 16 2005 10:19AM GMT

Clear Channel, at Last, Ready for
Internet

Clear Channel, at Last, Ready for
Internet 03/27/2005 12:49 AM
Radio Advertising Mar 27 2005 3:49AM GMT

Internet Is Extremists' Channel of
Choice (AP)

Internet Is Extremists' Channel of
Choice (AP) 06/25/2004 08:48 PM
AP - Al-Qaida-linked terror groups and their sympathizers have in recent months made a big splash on the Internet, making it their communications channel of choice.

Introducing ... the Buffy!

Introducing ... the Buffy! 09/17/2004 08:34 AM
Salon's first annual award honors the season's most unjustly ignored TV show.

Buffy meets Bilbo et al.

Buffy meets Bilbo et al. 04/12/2004 04:46 PM
Once more, with hobbits... A Lord of the Rings / Buffy the Vampire Slayer adventure, heralded by the folks at the Z+Partners blog as "rip, mix culture" incarnate... offered here for your delectation.

Buffy the Censor Slayer

Buffy the Censor Slayer 08/13/2004 10:53 AM
Letters Readers drive stake through parents' group

New AdSense Channel Features Added,
Including Real Time Channel Stats

New AdSense Channel Features Added,
Including Real Time Channel Stats 04/06/2005 03:12 AM
"Until now, channel data was delayed 2 days before appearing in your reports. We've upgraded our system to provide real-time reporting, allowing you to quickly react to changes in your ad performance on a page-by-page basis."

FCC rejects Buffy screen romp charge

FCC rejects Buffy screen romp charge 08/10/2004 07:21 AM
Vampire slayer cleared of indecency

Once More, With Hobbits: Musical Buffy
meets LotR

Once More, With Hobbits: Musical Buffy
meets LotR 12/16/2003 11:12 AM
Chris sez, "In honor of Return of the King we've created Once More, With Hobbits. This combines the Buffy: the Vampire Slayer musical episode with Lord of the Rings.

ORC: I've been having a bad bad day
Come on Gimli put that axe away
I'm asking you please no!
You've my sincere apologies
You've got the killing expertise
You'll cut through my collar like cheese
I'm begging let me go!
You have got me on my knees
You could slaughter me with ease
I really hate those fucking trees

GIMLI:
Forty-two, Master Legolas!

Link (Thanks, Chris)

Internet video channel tells HK's
anti-graft history

Internet video channel tells HK's
anti-graft history 06/26/2004 10:18 PM
Peoples Daily Online Jun 27 2004 2:37AM GMT

Hertz expects Internet to become main
booking channel for car rental by 2008

Hertz expects Internet to become main
booking channel for car rental by 2008 05/26/2004 02:51 AM
AME Info May 26 2004 6:39AM GMT

Indiagames to Bring “Buffy the Vampire
Slayer” to Your Mobile Phone

Indiagames to Bring “Buffy the Vampire
Slayer” to Your Mobile Phone 05/31/2004 01:55 PM
Twentieth Century Fox and Indiagames team up to launch "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" wireless content [PRWEB May 14, 2004]

A Lord of the Rings and Buffy the
Vampire Slayer Musical Adventure:
index.html

A Lord of the Rings and Buffy the
Vampire Slayer Musical Adventure:
index.html 12/17/2003 06:07 AM
Once More, With Hobbits

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“Show Me The Business!” Live Internet
Talk Radio Show Moves to the
VoiceAmerica™ Channel

“Show Me The Business!” Live Internet
Talk Radio Show Moves to the
VoiceAmerica™ Channel 03/22/2005 03:16 PM
Founder of Westcoast Business Review host Amy Campbell re-launches “Show Me The Business!” on Tuesday, March 22, 2005. [PRWEB Mar 21, 2005]

Retirement and Mature Workforce Expert,
Jeri Sedlar, to Discuss Pre-Retirement
on Internet Talk Radio Show on the
VoiceAmerica™ Business Channel

Retirement and Mature Workforce Expert,
Jeri Sedlar, to Discuss Pre-Retirement
on Internet Talk Radio Show on the
VoiceAmerica™ Business Channel 02/05/2005 09:50 PM
On February 8th, author and speaker, Jeri Sedlar, to discuss what people should know and anticipate before they retire on “The Coach” with David Hays and Jim Inman. [PRWEB Feb 4, 2005]

Log-Channel-0.7

Log-Channel-0.7 03/28/2005 04:00 AM

Channel Z

Channel Z 12/11/2003 04:48 PM
I'd meant to write something about this a little while back when I first saw the breadcrumbs (e.g. Top > Dave's World > Weblog Archive > 2003 > December > 04) appear on the top of scripting news's new layout. I could predict where Dave was going with this and wondered how he'd describe and implement it when he got there.

A Blosxom mailing list posting today pointed out Dave's new Chan nel Z project, described variously as an "innovation", "a new kind of architecture for a blogging system", "revolutionary", and so forth.

As noted by Michael Manley in a posted comment:

Perhaps I'm missing some subtlety to Dave's experiments, but isn't an awful lot of Channel Z's functionality already present in blogging tools like Blosxom (www.blosxom.com), which allow arbitrary category hierarchies, date-driven hierarchies, and RSS feeds at any point in either hierarchy?

Indeed it is. Blosx om has been built on just such a hierarchy system, one of the joys of using the filesystem as database.

Blosxom's raison d'etre is to apply to blogging all you already know about files and folders/directories. Your computer's hard drive is a database of thoughts, projects, silliness, good works, fact, and fiction. You're used to filing things away by project, subject, or according to the subjective rationale of some obscure personal filing system; Blosxom builds on this experience, allowing you to expose some piece of that hierarchy in the form of a weblog.
...
Reflecting your own personal category hierarchy in your Blosxom weblog is just a matter of saving your posts (their .txt files, that is) to the appropriate directory. Have something to say about language? Go ahead and make a set of nested folders for /society/language or /communication/spoken/language or whatever else you might prefer and save your post there.

Walking your Blosxom directory tree in your browser is as simple as appending the path on to the end of the base Blosxom URL.
...
Each step down the hierarchy provides not only postings in that directory/folder, but everything else in the directories/folders beneath. At the top-most level, I see everything. At /travel, I see everything in /travel, /travel/india, /travel/packing, and so forth.

Here are all my posts on literature:

blosxom.cgi/society/literature/

And anything on the Mac OS X operating system:

blosxom.cgi/computers/operating_systems/apple/mac_os_x/

Add to that the ability to go back in time and you've quite a few avenues available for exploration. Here are July 2003's posts on home repair:

blosxom.cgi/home/repair/2003/07

And personal resolutions made on January 1^st, 2003:

blosxom.cgi/personal/resolutions/2003/01/01

And, of course, combining a walk down the directory tree and going back in time shows everything beneath the current directory/folder. So, at /travel/india/2000/11/ I see all postings in /travel/india, /travel/india/mumbai, and so forth, restricted to postings made in November 2000.

Append an index.rss and you've an RSS feed of the path, day, path/day combination, or specific posting in question. Append index.anflavour and you've the same in any flavour you've defined. Add Fletcher Penney's find plugin and you can search within a particular part of your hierarchy or within a specific date-range--or both.

In point of fact, this functionality predates even Blosxom, harkening back to it's precursor, the now all-but-superceded Peerkat, "a personal syndicated data aggregator living on your computer desktop" I wrote back in November 2000.

Back in November 2000, I devoted a smidge of my copious free time ;-) to learning Python via a project I called Peerkat, a P2P version of Meerkat, the O'Reilly Network's Open Wire Service. About 95% to completion, work stalled around January 2001 due to lack of mindwidth :-\

Very similar in functionality to what the excellent Radio Userland offers, Peerkat was both an aggregator and a weblog application. Subscribe to feeds, pass some of them through, filter others, make notes along the way, and add your own entries if you're so inclined. Here's a screenshot of the Peerkat home screen another of the python hierachy, and of course adding a feed to aggregate, specifying to what path entries should be saved.

The focus was really on aggregating rather than posting, taking the pressure of writing off and allowing for some peer-to-peer aggregation magic. I subscribe to person A's snowboarding blog (or snowboarding category in their hierarchy) and person B's rock-climbing. You subscribe to person C's soccer and cricket categories and person D's olympics commentary. Person E can then come along and either subscribe to some of what we do directly or just pick and choose from our already-aggregated feeds, getting a nice collaboratively-aggregated feed of sports writing.

In fact, this goes back to a conversation involving Jon Udell and Dave.

Dave's original idea was to categorize at the channel level. Given that I tend to be interested in things like groupware, Perl, and XML, that would imply I'd categorize my channel like this:

<category>perl</category>
<category>groupware</category>
<category>xml</category>

This scheme would enable a channel host to organize views of its channels according to such categories. It seemed to me, though, that item-level categorization was also needed. For example, I'd be inclined to categorize my Zope item like this:

<category>OpenSource</category>
<category>Programming/Python</category>
<category>WebApplicationServers/Zope</category>
<category>Databases/OODB</category>

This was the original impetus, believe it or not, behind me wanting to extend RSS to incorporate channels, which lead to wanting to extend it to incorporate pointers to establish category hierarchies the likes of DMOZ and Yahoo!, which lead to my wanting to allow ad-hoc extension of RSS--but that's yet another conversation I think we've already had.

But to expose this categorization in the RSS without putting it into practice in the site overall seemed an awful shame. Why not use a breadcrumbs approach like any good content management system or categorization service does? I tried a database (Peerkat used the Python Gadfly database) with a URL-representation thereof. But all the while I was building Peerkat, it seemed a little silly to take text, push it into a database with a hierarchical category field, only to unwind it again to expose as a URL hierarchy.

Then the thought struck to use a perfectly hierarchical database everyone was already more than familiar with: the filesystem, with it's folders and files, and symlinks, and hard-links, and permissions. In much the same way Sea World harnesses the "natural behaviours" of its dolphins to apply to tricks, so too would this harness the natural behaviours of folks using their filesystems every day in creating categorized blogs.

And here we are back where we were. I love a good cycle, don't you?

"Channel 9"

"Channel 9" 04/09/2004 04:12 PM

Channel 9

Channel 9 04/27/2004 02:43 PM

Channel 9: It's gonna take more than listening in to Channel 9 for me, I think.

Channel 9 started as a personal story from one of us about fear of flying. Lenn realized after years of dealing with it, that it was actually a fear of the unknown. The fear was conquered through learning. The more transparency into what it took to fly a plane, the more the fear went away. Lenn got to know pilots who flew planes everyday, and every time he flew he turned on Channel 9 on the in-flight audio system to listen in to the cockpit.

We think developers need their own Channel 9, a way to listen in to the cockpit at Microsoft, an opportunity to learn how we fly, a chance to get to know our pilots. Five of us in Redmond are crazy enough to think we just might learn something from getting to know each other. Were we wrong? Time will tell.

Join in, and have a look inside our cockpit and help us fly the plane.

Welcome to Channel 9.

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Sci Fi Channel

Sci Fi Channel 01/07/2004 02:58 PM
Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel has a feed for Earthlings....

Channel Z is innovative

Channel Z is innovative 04/25/2004 09:51 AM

I went looking for a pointer for Channel Z and noted two things.

Google knows I'm in the Netherlands. This is irritating. I may be in the Netherlands, but I don't speak Dutch. How do I tell it to stop being so smart and just give me Google-As-Usual for a guy from the US who likes the Mets.

Second, when I searched for Channel Z the top hit was a post from a guy at O'Reilly complaining that I stole the idea from him. What utter nonsense. The idea of hierarchic directories certainly predates blogging tools. Manila has had a hierarchic directory browser since 2000. And everything in Channel Z is edited in an outliner, and as far as I know no other blogging tool has one, and if it does, was it really the first outliner? I did my first outliner in 1978. Doug Engelbart did one before. I think that's about it.

Channel Dean Day

Channel Dean Day 01/19/2004 01:55 PM

channelDean.xml. It'll be updated through the Iowa caucuses tonight, and if everything goes well, we'll have real-time returns channeled through the feed. We'll use this channel to focus on weblog coverage of the last week of the New Hampshire campaign, citizen journalism. And beyond that, who knows. That's the cool thing about this effort. Everything is very time-compressed. There's a chance to move. Few reasons not to.

How Channel Dean came to be. "Even the longest story begins with a single weblog post."

Channel Dean FAQ. "Several editors led by Mathew Gross, all at Dean For America, are periodically scanning the news, and selecting articles for inclusion in the flow."

Channel 9 Bits

Channel 9 Bits 06/18/2004 01:50 AM

• Anders Hejlsberg - Tour through computing industry history at the Microsoft Museum

Anders Hejlsberg is a distinguished engineer here. At least that's his official title. But that doesn't do justice to the role he's played in the industry (first at Borland, where he ran the team that developed Turbo Pascal and later Delphi, or here at Microsoft, where he and his team developed C#). But, don't take our word for it -- listen in as he takes you (and interviewer Charles Torre) on a tour of part of Microsoft's Museum and the part he played in computer industry history.

• Anders Hejlsberg - What's so great about generics?

Anders Hejlsberg talks about one of the biggest new feature in the next version of C#: generics.
Charles Torre interviews him in the middle of Microsoft's museum.
What are you going to use generics for?

• Anders Hejlsberg - Programming data in C# 3.0

Anders talks about a feature he's working on for C# 3.0 that aims to make data programmable in a general purpose and truly object oriented syntax; something that just doesn't exist today.

• Chris Anderson - "Hello Avalon"

Chris Anderson, a Software Architect on the Avalon team, discusses some of the possible first experiences programmers will have with Avalon. He demonstrates a XAML Hello World and discusses possible "Eureka!" moments for developers writing Avalon applications.

"Channel Dean"

"Channel Dean" 01/19/2004 03:02 PM

Literate Programming in XML

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: buffy "internet channel"