I’m going to try to journal the process of a new product that I’m developing in Mozilla Cloud Services
When Labs closed and I entered management I decided not to do any programming for a while. I had a lot to learn about management, and that’s what …
With TogetherJS we’ve been trying to make a usable tool for the web we have, and the browsers we have, and the web apps we have. But we’re also accepting a lot of limitations.
For a particular scope the limitations in TogetherJS are reasonable, but my own goals …
In concept videos and imaginings about the Future Of Computing we often see Intelligent Agents: smart computer programs that work on your behalf.
But to be more specific, I’m interested in agents that don’t work through formal rules. An SMTP daemon acts on your behalf routing messages to …
I’ve been working on an experiment, Hotdish, for several weeks now with Aaron Druck and Gregg Lind. I’m really excited about what we’re doing, and in particular I’m excited about some of the principles we are bringing to the design. Hotdish is an experiment in sharing …
I was listening to a podcast with some people from GitHub and I was struck by Hubot.
My understanding of what they are doing: Hubot is a chat bot — in this case it hangs out in Campfire chat rooms, but it could equally be an IRC bot. It started out …
There’s a number of “live programming” environments used for education. Khan Academy is one example. In it, you write code on the left hand side, and you immediately see the result on the right hand side. You don’t hit “save” or “run” — it’s just always running.
There …
I was talking for a while with Gregg Lind about TogetherJS and about all the ways it could and should be cool, if we keep building out this idea. Both to build out TogetherJS, but also the general area of cobrowsing (cobrowsing is where two or more people can browse …
One of the papers that I continue to refer to in my own thinking about technology is Notes on Postmodern Programming. Martin Fowler has a short summary:
The essence of it (at least for me) is that software development has long had a modernist viewpoint that admirable software systems are …
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