Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - Posts

• Babies Are Illogical: The “Lost” “Chapter” of “Code”

  I recently discussed how I cut some pages from my 1999 book Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software in a futile attempt to get the page count down. Those pages focused on some logic puzzles of the Victorian author beloved by geeks worldwide: the Rev. Charles Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll. Yesterday evening I rummaged around in my attic — actually I did the New York City equivalent, which involved visiting the Manhattan Mini Storage building on Spring and Varick — and found the box in which in the summer of 1999 I dumped all the existing printed and hand-written pages of Code and some magnetic media. The magnetic media turned out to be four 100-megabyte Zip disks, and fortunately we still own a Zip drive with a USB cable, and fortunately the disks were still readable. (It's only been nine years. I suspect the magnetic-media-anxiety-factor is much worse at the 20-year time period.) Here's the original beginning of Chapter 10: 10. Babies Are Illogical By profession, Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:52 PM from Charles Petzold | 0 Comments Filed under: Code

• [Event] Les inscriptions pour la PDC 2008 sont ouvertes !

  Microsoft vient d'ouvrir les inscriptions pour la PDC 2008. Pour rappel, la Professional Developers Conference est organisée par Microsoft et permet d'avoir un avant-gout des produits et technologie que nous utiliserons demain. A titre d'exemple, ... Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:17 PM from Thomas Lebrun | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Evènements

• GalaSoft "TweetMyPage" released for tests

  GalaSoft "TweetMyPage" is a web application allowing you to post to Twitter what you're currently reading in your web browser, on a simple button click. After you install the small "scriptlet" button in your web browser's "bookmarks toolbar" (Firefox) or "Links toolbar" (IE), any time you want to share what you're reading with the world, you can simply click on the "TweetMyPage" button. If it's the first time in this session that you are posting, you will be asked to enter your Twitter user name and password. After that first time, you will not be asked for it anymore, not until you close your web browser. As a result, a message will be sent in your name to Twitter, for example: When you create the "Bookmark button" in the Settings page , you can customize the "Reading" prefix that will be posted, as well as a couple of other settings. TweetMyPage is in beta for the moment, and if you want to try it, I'll be happy to send you an invite (just leave a comment down here or send me an email Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:54 PM from Laurent Bugnion (GalaSoft) | 0 Comments Filed under: Work, Technical stuff, Website, TweetMyPage