2007/08/31
Erlang
Ran into my former colleague: DaleSchumacher. In a short span of 15 minutes we exchanged a whole load of info (nothing, nothing can beat the face to face communication bandwidth). Anyway, the conversation confirmed my interest in SwarmIntelligence and DanMcCreary's suggestion of programming languages that leverage the coming multi-cores. So got the Erlang book. Looks like Erlang is a FunctionalLanguage.
Wikis and the WikiWord
People do not realize how much the simple power of the noble WikiWord is essential for the immersive magic of the Wiki . Lately I have been playing with SharePoint2007 and realized that in their wiki implementation, in their infinite but inexperiential wisdom, the designers eliminated the camel-casing WikiWord. Alas! The automagic of LinkingByAccident is lost. The flow of automatically linking while jotting down your thoughts is lost. For the casual observer my rant may seem a bit overblown and whiny but the "speed" of the editable web of information is lost when I have to do this: [[LinkingByAccident]] than just LinkingByAccident. The EconomyOfExpression has a lot to be said especially when you want to encourage HighFrequencyLowWavelength behavior in transmitting information within your InformationNetworks Books about wikis ,
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