After last Sunday’s start of a Programmers’ Salon, I have not thought more about Olav’s glowing words on how the Haskell programming language does interactive input. The problem can be formulated thusly: Haskell is a side-effect-less language, a purely functional language. How can it take interactive input? We wallow in side-effects in the imperative languages, …
Author Archives: Olle Jonsson
Olle Jonsson on 43 Things
Olle Jonsson on 43 Things is a little page on me, and what my goals are in life. Or, at least as much as I typed in. 43things.com is a social networking site with the social object of personal goals. A very interesting, and stimulating feature was its tie-ins with my blog platform WordPress and …
Why The Lucky Stiff in pictures!
Why The Lucky Stiff did it as FOSCON. His The Starry Afternoon session is documented in pictures at flickr, so you all can see what he looks like. (Ruby fans: Don’t miss shots of Rich Kilmer and Matz either!)
Board games I like
Me and Luisa found a few new hits in boardgaming during our vacation. ## Lost Cities Lost Cities is a two-player card game of exploring lost cities. A German design, without the use of language on the cards. Came with Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish translations of the short rules. Learning the game was a …
D-Link DWL-122 + Tiger = Trouble
D-Link DWL-122 is a little dongle for wireless internet. With Mac OS X, it makes trouble. When removed from the USB slot on OS X Tiger it freezes the computer with a nice OS warning that the computer must be shut down or restarted. Now I am digging up info on as to why it …
Cockiest title: Best Software Writing I
Tobias came to Copenhagen, and gave me a copy of Best software writing I a collection edited by Joel Spolsky . “Finding it was quite hard,” he said “even in a city like London.” Oh, and I am happy-happy about that book. Now: a week’s vacation.
Django: Python web framework of the minute
More frameworks that map relational databases to rich object-oriented models! Today’s news is a Python framework. It’s been developed during two years for use at a newspaper in Kansas. Read more in the real description: Django at a glance tells the short of it, and Simon Willison says more at his weblog. You create a …
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Serious role-playing: Rest in peace
My friend with the great singing voice Tobias takes a historical drive down LARP’s memory lane: Drama exercises is the new costume-making. He chronicles the descent of Swedish LARP “seriousness” (and also defines what that term meant, at the time). (I now see that I need to tag my posts more specifically. LARP could be …
Blog platform update
I can not believe I waited this long to do this upgrade. What could go wrong? Everything, I thought. And yet, it went flawlessly. As you can see, I have taken only one step away from the default theme, and installed another theme. Steps will be taken in the future. What this move to a …
Flow: Ecological restaurant
Restaurant Flow Gyldenløvesgade 10 1369 Copenhagen K Tel.: (+45) 33 14 43 43 Olle’s comment: Have not visited this place yet. I’d like to, but every time something comes up. Please chip in with commentary on this place. > A cozy, tranquil atmosphere; non-smoking, no caffinated or alcoholic beverages. Food is prepared according to the …