Last night’s DemoCamp 6 was a little bumpier than usual: the organizer, David Crow, was unwell, so Joey and Jay stepped in as MCs, and then the A/V system went HAL on us. Nevertheless, the demos were very entertaining:
They were all very cool, and once again made me feel that at some point, without really noticing, I became one of those “Fortran on a VAX is all you need” dinosaurs I remember from my first couple of jobs in the 1980s… 
Other reviews:
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This idea keeps coming around — I first worked on a system to do something like this (in 3D!) almost ten years ago. Not sure what the value is, but it sure is pretty…
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This article on the never-ending cycle of thin and thick clients is a good sobering-up amidst the current excitement over AJAX.
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This post, by Eric Sink, is a good summary of ideas I didn’t encounter until I started working with the Select Access team way back when the bubble was young. (The last bubble, that is, not the impending Web 2.0 blowout.)
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The term “mashup” is sooooo Web 2.0 *yawn*, but ProgrammableWeb‘s “Best New Mashups” has some interesting links. I particularly liked Relate-a-zon, but I am not going to take it seriously. Not until I’m done marking, anyway. Well, maybe if I played just a little now, I’d be able to focus better…
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Joey de Villa of TUCOWS wants to start a discussion about Toronto’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) initiative, the aim of which is to move Toronto from the #3 spot in North America (behind Silicon Valley and New York, ahead of Boston) into #2. Joey feels that plans are currently being shaped primarily by large, slow-moving companies, most of whom only have branch offices in Toronto, rather than by more agile, home-grown outfits. If you agree—or if you don’t—your thoughts would be welcome.
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Mike Gunderloy’s blog at Larkware is always worth reading. Today’s items include Usability vs. Buyability and Have I Inherited a Disaster? Coincidentally, DrProject still isn’t ready for release because of packaging issues: while some people are able to install it in 15 minutes or less on a clean Linux box, others have wrestled for hours without being able to make it run. I’m tempted to slap the word beta on it and release it anyway, but (a) that’s cheating, and (b) it feels like we’re so close.
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DemoCamp 6 will be held from 6:30-8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 30, in the MaRS Building on College Street. It promises to be a good show, with a couple of demos from U of T.
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As you may have noticed we’re currently in the process of upgarding the blog installation on Pyre. Hopefully there won’t be any major hiccups, but if there are, sorry, it happens. If you notice any major problems, please let me know at igorfoox __at __ gmail dot com.
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A new machine is always an opportunity to clean house—you simply don’t reinstall the things you once thought were worth downloading, and don’t copy over the files you no longer need. So, 56 hours after taking possession, what’s on my new laptop?
Tools
- Apache
- Audacity
- Blitzin (for recreation)
- Cygwin
- Eclipse
- Emacs
- Firefox and Thunderbird
- Gimp
- Gnumeric
- the Google Toolbar (but not Google Desktop—soon)
- MWSnap (for screen captures)
- PDFCreator
- Python (along with PIL, Nose, and a bunch of other libraries)
- WingIDE
- Wink (for making screencasts)
- WinSCP
Projects (all out of version control repositories)
- Beautiful Code (more about this in about three weeks)
- CSC207 and CSC407 (the courses I’m teaching this summer)
- DrProject (which is really close to 1.0, really, I mean it this time)
- our “CS-1 in Python” book
- the third-bit.com web site
- Software Carpentry
- my personal workspace, which has talks, book reviews, and so on
I haven’t checked out any of the open source projects I’m involved in—there isn’t going to be time to work on them this summer. For much the same reason, this will be the first machine I’ve owned in six years that has never had Homeworld installed on it… *sigh*
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