Jeppe: new at Flickr

olleolleolle Originally uploaded by Jeppe Norsker. After being a Flickr user for 1 minute, Jeppe decided to portray yours truly, and this is the first portrait (of many?) from our shared office. We still worship its clean white cube style, but we are ready to give this up when the furnishings arrive. Promises of sun-screening …

Programming in Haskell

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, …

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 …

Holding thoughts

Briton and computer geek Matt Webb and his blog Interconnected continues to amaze me. The guy reads continental philosophy (Deleuze, no less), and discusses it like it was comic books. The way it should be discussed, at any rate. That goes for comic books, too, but the other conceptual way around. “A Thousand Plateaus was …

Open Source programming recruting

At the Reboot conference, I attended a less formal talk-session on how to make money on Open Source programming. In the group were among others: myself, David Axmark of MySQL AB, Copenhagen’s Umbraco (.NET content management system/framework), and the nice guy from Portugal. You can read the points in this article at NewsForge “Finding an …