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D. Souflis - TinyScheme Download site.  Another tiny interpreter system. I think oMiser will be smaller, but it might do with far fewer data types and not be so speedy too.  It will be interesting to see what is included in the weight-watcher version.
posted by Dennis at Thursday, January 08, 2004

 
The Programming Language Lua.  A lightweight scripting language mentioned on /. recently.
posted by Dennis at Thursday, January 08, 2004

 
Yahoo! News - Microsoft, BEA, Tibco Publish New Web Services Spec.  Another addition to the Web Services stack, WS-Eventing is announced.  There is a link to follow-up on here.
posted by Dennis at Thursday, January 08, 2004

 
Yahoo! News - Gates Salutes the Seamless Computing Experience.  So Seamless Experience, Confirmable Experience, and Coherence are related.  This is an interesting observation.  It will be interesting to see how one can make "Seamless Computing Experience" grounded.  I am already concerned about that with regard to confirmable experience.
posted by Dennis at Thursday, January 08, 2004

 
DevChannel | Getting started with the IBM Speed Start software kit.  An interesting article on developer versions of commercial products running atop Linux. It is pointed out that some (DB2?) are designed for installation by experts and are not plug and play applications.
posted by Dennis at Wednesday, January 07, 2004

 
Slashdot | Agile Software Development with Scrum.  Here's the overall Slashdot book review and comment thread.
posted by Dennis at Tuesday, January 06, 2004

 
Agile Software Development with Scrum.  Ah, here is a nice comment to a review.  Forwarded to me by my associate Bill Anderson.
posted by Dennis at Tuesday, January 06, 2004