No Warranty Expressed Or Implied http://johnp.net/blog Lisp, synthesisers, Web 3D & stuff. en Copyright �a9; 2011 John Pallister 60 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:02 GMT me@johnp.net PyBlosxom http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/ 1.4.3 01/10/2008 Blog ideas ideas/blog-ideas http://johnp.net/blog/ideas/blog-ideas.html

Emboldened by my success in writing an archives plugin, I'd now like to do one for my blog categories and another to suck down my recent Delicious link posts.

I'd also like to re-do the layout so it doesn't look so primitive. I was reading a post on Peter Seibel's blog the other day, and his layout & HTML source looked pretty good, so I might do something based on that.

But none of these things are particularly urgent, so I think I'll move on to trying to get ABCL running on the Google App Engine (after having spent a fair bit of time getting JDEE and its dependencies set up in Emacs). But I do intend to do a post on my Nginx/Paste/PyBlosxom setup.

And now, having finished this post, it's time to go to bed.

]]> Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:02 GMT Benjamin Fry, organic information designer ideas/benjamin-fry http://johnp.net/blog/ideas/benjamin-fry.html This guy is the man.
Complexity is a perceived quality that comes from the difficulty in understanding or describing many layers of inter-related parts. An Organic Information Visualization provides a means for viewers to engage in an active deconstruction of a data set. The complexity is pulled apart through a combination of real-time user interaction as well as control of the data set through modification of the rules used for representation.
From the introduction to his Masters thesis, Organic Information Design. ]]> Sun, 27 Jul 2003 03:53 GMT Finite State Machines <i>vs.</i> Stack Machines, <i>etc.</i> ideas/fsm-vs-sm http://johnp.net/blog/ideas/fsm-vs-sm.html Another good pointer from Chis Double, this time to a post describing why continuations were removed from REBOL. The interesting part was a comparison of finite state machines versus stack machines for language interpreters. Not sure how/if this relates to Ngake, since although it is based on state machines, it isn't a language interpreter.

Also: Real Programmers Do Not Use Parser Generators, Why Bison is Becoming Extinct, and Real Programmers Don't Write Specs ("Strong typing is for people with weak memories"). Finally, a good article on abstractions.

Aside: I think I want Enter the Matrix (the computer game) for my birthday. ]]> Tue, 20 May 2003 05:43 GMT