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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves Orcs. -John Rogers Two Novels that can change your life...

17 November 2012

San Diego

Since I'm off to San Diego soon, might take an evening or morning walk.

Squeak/Smalltalk/Pharo all on Android

Maybe time to come back to Squeak (in the form of Pharo) to run on Android. I've had a dream since pre-Palm days to have a portable Smalltalk system. Well, portable any programming system but Smalltalk always struck me as the right solution for a portable system. Yes, of course, Alan Kay was ahead on this.

SqueakVM on Android

Some discussion about Squeak on Android

Cog VM on Android announcement

Page for Cog VM on Android. Cogdroid is a key search term.

12 November 2012

Databases

I am always really turned on by databases until the exact instant when I actually have to work with them. None the less..

RethinkDB looks quite interesting.

I think one of my big interests has always been distribution and global locking protocols, and, well, that's not what most databases do very well. Here, take this spiked stick and start beating yourself. Feel good? Then you'll love doing distributed databases...