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How To Make A Telemarketer Cry. Eli the Bearded says: "Mark, a lawyer, was woken at 5:24am by an
automated telemarketer. This is a detailed
account of how he sued and got $500 from
the telemarketer, with plenty of details
to help others repeat his success." Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 
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Are Dynamic Languages Going to Replace Static Languages?. (SOURCE:Ted Leung on the air)-Amen! Dynamic languages like Perl, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk (and dare I say Lisp!) are the future.
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Four years ago I got involved with Extreme Programming. I liked the pragmatic emphasis it placed upon developing software. I also liked the emphasis it put on testing. Since then I have become test infected. I can no longer concieve of writing software without using test driven development. I can't imagine not having a comprehensive suite of unit tests to back up my development.
About two years ago I noticed something. I was depending less and less on the type system for safety. My unit tests were preventing me from making type errors. The more I depended upon the unit tests, the less I depended upon the type safety of Java or C (my languages of choice).
I thought an experiment was in order. So I tried writing some applications in Python, and then Ruby (well known dynamically typed languages). I was not entirely surprised when I found that type issues simply never arose. My unit tests kept my code on the straight and narrow. I simply didn't need the static type checking that I had depended upon for so many years.
I also realized that the flexibility of dynamically typed langauges makes writing code significantly easier. Modules are easier to write, and easier to change. There are no build time issues at all. Life in a dynamically typed world is fundamentally simpler.
</quote> [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
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Seth Dillingham: UserTalk: Articles and Essays. (SOURCE:Emmanuel M Décarie's blog.scriptdigital)-Essential reading!
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Seth have posted a page that regroup its articles and essays on UserTalk. If you are serious about programming Frontier or Radio UserLand, you need to bookmark this page. Seth Dillingham is certainly one of the best UserTalk knowledgeable person in the universe (he is funny too).
UserTalk: Articles and Essays by Seth Dillingham
http://www.truerwords.net/articles/ut/
* Patching Frontier's Support for External Editors
* Optimize Your UserTalk Code: Remove Extra Variables
* Thread-based Global Variables in UserTalk
* Optimal String Concatenation in UserTalk
* Simple Cross-Network Scripting
* Activating URL's with Regex
</quote> [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
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Pitching Blogs part 2. I met Todd, a banker, tonight at our friend Paula's party. His job is to fund knowledge based industries. I was stunned to find out that he doesn't know what a blog is! I figured that bankers would know based on especially after Google's recent acquisition of Blogger and Neoteny's (who are VCs) funding of TypePad. Don't all bankers and VCs know each other :-) ?
Just goes to show you that blogs are far from mainstream. I need to continue to cultivate my pitch.
Because bottom line: a) we don't have a business model that I can pitch to bankers and VCs although I think we are getting closer b) blogging is new!
But I do know that blogs are a big part of the future of the web and if we don't make lots of money off of it somebody else will. And to me, it's not all about money (but of course that's a big part of it); it's about making the world a better place by enabling better communication through blogging.
Todd: I suggest you come to one of our DisruptiveThinking Meetings and we can discuss blogs, demo blogs and start one up for you.
In the meantime here are some links for Todd to investigate about blogging:
[Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
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Rogers Cadenhead is working on a new book about Radio: "Radio UserLand Kick Start" He put a draft of the fist chapter on the Web. Says Roger:
"There's an amazing amount of stuff you can do with the software -- I can't think of another $40 program that supports Internet content management and publishing, information aggregation, programming, object-oriented database storage, and a long list of buzzworthy acronyms: HTTP, HTML, XML, FTP, XML-RPC, SOAP, and RSS."
[John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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rantelope - open source Python blog system. (SOURCE:markpasc.blog)-Yet another open source blogging system written in Python! Cool nonetheless.
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Rantelope is a standards-compliant weblogging and content management tool written in the object oriented scripting language, python.
The development is backed by Sabren Enterprises Inc, the creators of Cornerhost. The intial version will be released under the GNU General Public License on May 1, 2003.
</quote> [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
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Open Source Applications Foundation - Chandler Release 0.1. (SOURCE:email from Simon)-For early adopters and techies only!
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The purpose of releasing version 0.1 Chandler source code is to provide an architectural and technical overview of Chandler, give the community a chance to review a skeletal framework and tentative APIs, and to provide more details about future Chandler plans including a few cool features to give a glimpse of what is possible. In general, this is a chance to show that OSAF is "for real".
</quote> [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
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Alan Kay presentation vids. Lisa Rein has posted the video from Alan Kay's mindblowing presentation on innovation, OOP, SmallTalk, and the way that kids compute from ETCON. Link
Kay's corrections to "Daddy Are We There Yet?". Alan Kay and Peter Deutch have added some corrections and clarifications to my notes from Kay's "Daddy Are We There Yet?" talk at ETCON yesterday. Scroll down to the bottom of the file for the new notes.Link
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