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A functional language
Listened to the latest This Developer’s Life yesterday. “Education“. I enjoyed especially the Seth Juarez interview.
Along with a bunch of useful advice and insight on how to think about school, Seth recommends every programmer should learn 3 languages: a strongly-typed compiled language, a dynamic language and a functional language.
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Inaugural Address
During our AGM last month, Kwartzlab elected a new Board of Directors for 2011-2012. The new Board begins its term today. I figure it’s a good time to look forward on the year ahead, so I gave my “inaugural address” to the Kwartzlab mailing list this morning as the Board’s new President. (Reposted from kwartzlab.ca)
Hi, Kwartzlabbers!
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Delegation to Regional Council In Favour of LRT
I love living in Waterloo Region.
I love living in the City of Waterloo.
One of the things I love is that I can start walking from my house in Lakeshore-a 40-year-old suburb-and find myself in cow pastures in about 20 minutes.
I worry that if our current growth patterns and planning continue, we will lose that agricultural heritage. What we get ( Read more... ) -
Pink wristbands
I used to volunteer at the Royal Medieval Faire, usually working gates: taking money and welcoming people to the Faire. One year the Faire tried giving people wristbands instead of hand stamps to let them back in. For no discernible reason, the wristbands were pink.
One little boy worked his way up to us in the line with his parents. Dad paid ( Read more... ) -
Vote. Please.
I have the start of four other posts about the current Canadian parliamentary election in my drafts folder. I’ve been having a hard time collating my thoughts into something novel or interesting.
This election scares me and makes me profoundly sad for my country. That’s made it hard for me to get my thoughts together. Fortunately, Canadian ( Read more... ) -
Clutter
A couple days ago, I gave a presentation on Clutter (the API for building animated graphical user interfaces for touchscreens and the like) to KWLUG. Here’s a shorter, screencast version of the presentation:
The slides themselves were created in python with Clutter. You can pull the source down from launchpad with bzr branch lp:~dscassel/+junk/ ( Read more... ) -
The Illusionist
I mentioned at Con-G yesterday that The Illusionist is playing at the Princess this week, and I'd like to see it tomorrow night. 7pm.
Here's the trailer. It looks lovely.
Edited because I'm an idiot. The movie starts at 7pm.
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Tenth Anniversary
Ten years ago today, I posted my first blog post.
Okay, technically, that was on my old, hand-coded blog, and I’m lame even after almost 4 years, I haven’t imported my old blog into this one, but woo! 10 years!
Equally technically, I was posting something like blog posts on my old homepage, starting around 1998 or so. They weren’t archived or ( Read more... )
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