Monthly Archives: November 2007

RuPy – Ruby & Python Conference, which you may dig

Conferences: lots of folks you want to meet, many spaces to be in, lots happening at the same time. In Danish they call it “at gå glip” (to miss out). Getting good at missing out is an important part of growing up. Wait, I’m not trying to tell you to cope with your fear of [...]
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I always wondered what Portland Oregon looked like

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Flock, testing it again

They say that the people of Flock have worked on the memory leakage issues of Firefox. I’m trying that out for truth (by running Flock). If Flock manages to pull me away from NetNewsWire Lite, I’ll be a happy toad. Less apps. That I now have my social media items under my fingertips all the time is [...]
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Nordic Game Jam 2008 coming up

I got this fine email from the organizers of Nordic Game Jam. I thought I’d share it here, since it might be of local hackerly interest. Update: The entrance fee is totally low, at 200 DKK. (26.8 EUR, or 39.5 USD) Dear all, For the third year in a row: Check out the program for Nordic Game Jam, [...]
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WideFinder in Io: it’s now too late

A Swede made the first WideFinder implementation in Io: Ragnar Dahlén. The results were informative, but not performant. Io can not compete just there, just yet. Me and Thorbiörn were conspiring last week to implement WideFinder, but we got waylaid by… distractions. The distractions were speculative, lazy, and touched on different OCamls. Like this: “We need an [...]
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Malmo Linux User Group Wednesday pizza meetup notes

I attended a local geek meetup at La Trattoria, at 18:30 this past Wednesday. (map) I can recommend the mozzarella add-on to any pizza. InterSystems Caché® got hard slammed at the meeting. Horrible war stories about that object-oriented database. The guy who told them, Micke, was also a Högskolan i Skövde alumnus. New visitor record, says Magnus. This [...]
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Hack-a-thon, in my town!

More groups of people who want to fiddle with opensource software: Hackaton.se. They have an event in Malmö, at a school, 23-25 november. Just to let you know, so you can spread the word. I’ll write more when I know more. Update! An attentive reader, also being the organizer of the upcoming event emailed me, and told [...]
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