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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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Labels: javascript, jsconf permalink ( Monday, April 19, 2010 ) Ray 0 comments links to this postSunday, April 18, 2010 Socratic and Verbalization: Documenting on both sides Francisco Tolmasky gave a talk at #jsconf on Socratic: Documentation Done Right. He asked for feedback and he got me thinking about the problem that coders documentation does not even help them when they go back to it. Ever have that happen with your documentation? Go back to your source comments three months later and they don't make much sense? The process of coding involves variable and method names which are suppose to be meaningful. A convention has evolved where methods should be verbs because they do something and variables are nouns. Roughly. So I suggested to Francisco that perhaps Socratic could use Verbalization to verify that methods are verbs. Think of Verbalization as a spell check of only verbs. Maybe it could check that "is" methods are boolean and perhaps more. I suppose the Nounization could be done on variables. One theme at JSCONF is running JavaScript on client and the server. For example, same validation method on both. This got me thinking about the documentation divide. So why not run Verbalization on both Socratic and Textmate or your IDE. As you build out your code check that your method names are verbs. And this gets you a glossary? So a common plug system for both Socratic and IDEs would be good. Just a thought or two with a lot more to think about. Labels: javascript permalink ( Sunday, April 18, 2010 ) Ray 0 comments links to this postFriday, April 02, 2010 Ed Roberts Passed Away A true pioneer of the personal computer, Ed Roberts, passed away yesterday. Bill Gates and Paul Allen released a statement about the creator of the MITS Altair. I bought one of the first Altair computers, soldered it together and after several tries got it working. Entered many programs using the front panel switches and later built my own keyboard. As soon as it was available I ordered the computer language BASIC on cassette from an unknown company in Albuquerque, NM, called MicroSoft. Many happy hours were spent at my Altair and it became the platform for my first business venture: CableGames. Though not successful, it lead me into the retail software business and starting the first software store in the world in 1979. That was my career for 15 years. The world and my life would not been the same without Ed Roberts. I still own my Altair - my first computer. Labels: Ed Roberts permalink ( Friday, April 02, 2010 ) Ray 0 comments links to this postTuesday, March 30, 2010 Yes We Can, Hell No You Can't, Yes We Can permalink ( Tuesday, March 30, 2010 ) Ray 0 comments links to this post Saturday, January 30, 2010 Private GIT with Dropbox This is too cool. Labels: coding permalink ( Saturday, January 30, 2010 ) Ray 0 comments links to this postTuesday, December 15, 2009 When I'm 58 and in the chart Survey of lifestyles for 57 and above. permalink ( Tuesday, December 15, 2009 ) Ray 0 comments links to this post Thursday, December 03, 2009 Why is technology important? Dave Winer posted one answer to "Why is technology important?". It is an important question. Technology is a human artifact like media, innovations, language, processes, tools, clothing and any other "extensions of the physical human body - or the mind." So I will answer the question: "Why are artifacts important?" Artifacts are important because they impact our culture, our way of life. They have four effects: enhance, obsolesces, retrieves and reverses as described in McLuhan's Laws of Media. For example, automobiles enhance our privacy and travel, obsolesces horse and buggy, retrieves quests and reverses into traffic jams. You may have a different perception which is another reason why it is important to study technology and other artifacts. You can use this model to study any artifact and thus our culture. Labels: Laws of Media, McLuhan permalink ( Thursday, December 03, 2009 ) Ray 0 comments links to this postThursday, September 17, 2009 New New Media New book from author of Digital McLuhan. New new way to promote the textbook. Is a textbook new new media? javascript:void(0) Labels: McLuhan permalink ( Thursday, September 17, 2009 ) Ray 0 comments links to this post |