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RoboDebâ€¦ any moment now

By matt, on March 29th, 2006%

In preparation for our talk and workshop next week at DIKU, we’re prepping our release of RoboDeb. Before the end of the week, the link:
robodeb.transterpreter.org
will work, and you’ll be able to download a VM full of occamy, robotic goodness. I can’t wait!
(Why can’t I wait? Because it takes a lot of effort to release something [...] . . . → Read More: RoboDebâ€¦ any moment now

Travel dates

By matt, on March 28th, 2006%

It’s certain that I’ll be on the road quite a bit over the next two months:

Copenhagen, Denmark (April 2 – 6)

Christian and I will be giving a lecture and workshop on the role of concurrent programming languages like occam-pi in robotic control.

St. Andrews, Scotland (April 11 – 15)

Along with the DIAS RAs up north, we’ll be . . . → Read More: Travel dates

Updates

By matt, on March 28th, 2006%

Change comes slowly.

I dug up the rewrite I did of my link directory script, and proceeded to update my publications list. Time to clean the rest of the cruft out of that space now.

Mostly, we’re just making space to put my dissertation in there. I have a complete document now, and most of it has . . . → Read More: Updates

Ebooks: Soon, very soon!

By matt, on March 27th, 2006%

Another ebook linkfest:

TeleRead, which I’ve just subscribed to, has a bunch of interesting content surrounding the topic of ebooks.
A first look at the Irex Iliad
Answers to readers’ questions about the Iliad

Contrary to some rumourmilling sites, it looks like the powerhog on the Iliad is the WiFi; when it isn’t used, it has something approaching a 10,000 . . . → Read More: Ebooks: Soon, very soon!

More to do

By matt, on March 27th, 2006%

I haven’t taken part in anything musical for the last year-and-a-half. That . . . → Read More: More to do

Someday projects

By matt, on March 26th, 2006%

I have too many projects that I don’t have time for. I thought I’d jot a few down, for when I actually run out of other things to do…

I’ve wanted to provide an XML-RPC to Applescript bridge for my Mac for some time. Someone may yet beat me there; I wouldn’t mind, really.
XML-RPC for Scheme, client-and-server. . . . → Read More: Someday projects

0.7.3, RoboDeb

By matt, on March 23rd, 2006%

We have a new binary build of the Transterpreter up; version 0.7.3 rolls in some minor fixes, and includes support for SHARED channels. However, it does not support SHARED top-level channels; this is an issue with how the data is passed through the compiler (and therefore, ultimately, to the slinker), and those issues may (or [...] . . . → Read More: 0.7.3, RoboDeb

First day of spring

By matt, on March 23rd, 2006%

Today, the sun came out. The air took on that undefinable quality, for the first time in months, where the world says “I am alive!”

While it may not be official, I declare today to be the first day of Spring in . . . → Read More: First day of spring

HOOF HEARTED ICE MELTED

By matt, on March 12th, 2006%

We can’t have an empty weblog, can we?

There once was a man from Rangoon
Whose farts could be heard on the moon;
When you’d least expect ‘em
They’d burst from his rectum
With the force of a raging typhoon!!

This dissertation thing isn’t so much fun, for . . . → Read More: HOOF HEARTED ICE MELTED

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