Archive for November, 2007

Announce Nemo 0.1

I’m very pleased that I can now finally lift the curtain and show what I’ve been spending most of my time working at iola on.

It’s been a long ride, but now the alpha release is finally ready for public consumption :-)

2007
11/28
CATEGORY
iola
nemo
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The problem with depending on a server

So here at iola we use subversion internally. It’s ridiculus that the following use case doesn’t work:

<do stuff>

svn commit

<do stuff>

svn commit

<I forgot what I had written in last commit log>

svn log (local copy out of date, only shows revision before the first commit)

svn update

svn: Working copy ‘.’ locked
svn: run ‘svn cleanup’ to remove locks (type ‘svn help cleanup’ for details)

Owned :(

2007
11/26
CATEGORY
VCS
distributed
iola
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Finished reading Practical Common Lisp

Finally got through the mighty Practical Common Lisp tome. The style of the book is written in a nice mix of theory and practice (with relevant and good examples). My friend Lau asked me why on earth I would want to read a book on Lisp? A fair question since Lisp is really old, actually measured in computer time it might even be called ancient. But I had two main motivations for reading the book, to become a better programmer and secondly to better understand new language features introduced in languages like Boo and C#. Just look at the new LINQ features in C# 3.0 and specifically this video.

I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone interesting in a good programming book.

2007
11/23
CATEGORY
.net
Books
Programming
boo
c#
lisp
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Seems there was a somewhat good reason why Google built their own VM

Best explaination I have found yet for the Dalvik VM for Android.

2007
11/14
CATEGORY
On the web
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Ohh the irony

Two microsoft licenses approved as open source. It had to happen, open beats closed in the long run.

2007
11/08
CATEGORY
Free Software
On the web
open source
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