This is a bit of a hand-wavy post, but I wanted to get my thoughts down. Recently there’s been a spate of interest around interaction with devices, applications and systems … via a chat-style interface. This is nothing new, of course. Bots have existed on the IRC networks for a long time. The venerable Purl, [...]
Anil Dash provides food for thought in his post “What Works: The Web Way vs The Wave Way“. While I agree with him on the importance of the incremental approach to technology progression on the web (”The Web Way”), I do profess to have an intense interest in the pollination of XMPP into the HTTP [...]
Yes yes, I know I’m late to the game, and everyone and his dog has given their angle on why Twitter is so successful, but I’d like to weigh in with a few thoughts too. The thoughts are those that came together when I was chatting to Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden), at a GeekUp event in [...]
I had a nice conversation with Ralph Meijer this afternoon; he had grabbed a very old program that I’d written — sjabber, a console-based Jabber groupchat client — because he’d been having some issues with his current client.
As Ralph explained in his blog just now, it only took a single-line modification to get it up [...]
I’ve been umming and arring over conferences this year. One that I don’t want to miss is FOSDEM - the Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting, on a weekend next month in Brussels.
FOSDEM is a great grass-roots event that is full of friendly hackers. Add a wonderful city to the mix, and what [...]
Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman were keynoting at OSCON this morning. It was a great talk about the Mono project and a cool demo of Dashboard. I managed to convey some of the presentation to the #dashboard folks who couldn’t be present. It was also really refreshing to see source code, system [...]