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Hugh Winkler holding forth on computing and the Web

Monday, October 08, 2012

Finder Not Responding: Lion and Mountain Lion

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After upgrading to Mountain Lion, Finder frequently became not responsive. The culprit was the "All My Files" feature in the side...
Friday, February 24, 2012

MVC Frameworks. Keep 'em.

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I said it here in 2006. MVC on the server is a poor fit for web apps. Here's a more up-to-date critique . Subsurfr , which I introduced...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Jakob Nielsen: Web will beat mobile apps

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Although he thinks that apps offer a better user experience right now, and offers evidence to back that up, Jakob Nielsen officially predict...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Exploring the Bakken using WebGL

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In the spirit of Done is Better than Perfect , we recently unleashed Subsurfr, a 3-D subsurface visualization web app for oil and gas . We...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Inflexible, unmaintainable, fragile code in Clojure

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I constructed a subsystem in Clojure. We had a nice, compact problem to solve. The rest of our app talks to this Clojure bit through a small...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Wolfram Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input

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I have yet to get any answers to any interesting, real question I have had, from Wolfram Alpha .
Saturday, April 25, 2009

If RMS has his way, the GPL is dead

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The GPL has never made me feel particularly free. Only in a kind of newspeak can you say that constraining the kinds of agreements I can m...
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

The REST Hypothesis

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I'm glad Joe Gregorio frankly assessed Atompub's meager adoption . Atompub served as an experiment to confirm the REST hypothesis: ...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Cheney Wheelchair Horror

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Best comment so far : If only he had a small cat to pet as they rolled him to the car. You know something that he could stroke until he snap...
Saturday, January 03, 2009

Clojure vs JavaFX Script: only 5x slower!

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Chris Oliver compares his JavaFX script to JRuby and Groovy and finds JavaFX 25 times faster. I failed to get JavaFX compiler running on my...
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