Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
Rob Pike gave a talk at Google about the NewSqueak programming language, and specifically how it's concurrency features work. NewSqueak uses channels and is based on the concepts of Communicating Sequential Processes. To play around with some of the ideas in the video I created a quick implementation of channels for Factor and converted a couple of the NewSqueak examples.... more →
Dave Winer visited Mozilla yesterday to give a talk about RSS during the all hands meetings. I've been a reader of Dave's blog for awhile and was previously a Radio Userland user for a couple of years so it was good to meet him in person. He outlined his views on the 'river of news' format of aggregating feeds that... more →
Version 4 of the Firefox Video Element Patch is up. It has a number of bug fixes and contains changes suggested by the reviewers. Before applying the patch to the Mozilla Firefox CVS trunk, you should first apply the third party modules patch. Another option is to just use the git repository I've been maintaining. One major change is I'm... more →
Factory is an X11 window manager written in Factor by Eduardo Cavazos. Although best used in Linux, it can also be run using the X11.app in Mac OS X. First you need to build Factor using the X11 backend rather than the standard Mac OS X backend. This can be done with the latest darcs code using these steps: cd... more →
The N800 is a small tablet type device produced by Nokia. It has a 320Mhz ARM CPU, 128MB of RAM and 256MB of flash storage. While the latter sounds small it also has two card slots allowing plugging in lots of extra storage. The display is a nice 800x480 and about 4 inches. It has both 802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.0.... more →