Re: [fonc] Alternative Web programming models?

2011-06-03 Thread Benoît Fleury
Hi Scott, I tend to agree with you. The uniform interface of the web (reduced set of HTTP verbs, links...) is what make all these applications possible. We know what to do when we have the URL to the flickr image. But we could do so much more. A simple multi-media document definition language

Re: [fonc] HotDraw's Tool State Machine Editor

2011-07-24 Thread Benoît Fleury
state). Modeless at PARC meant you don't have to explicitly back out of your current 'mode' to initiate any other command. Cheers, Alan From: Benoît Fleury benoit.fle...@gmail.com To: Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org Sent: Sat, July 23, 2011 11

Re: [fonc] Alan Kay talk at HPI in Potsdam

2011-07-25 Thread Benoît Fleury
So, i think it is more a lack of vision, than technical/security issues. There might not have been a technical vision in the www but there is I think a political statement which is that the information must be open. Papers like The Rule of Least Power [1] make it very clear. This is, in my

Re: [fonc] new document

2011-11-09 Thread Benoît Fleury
Unless I missed it, there is no mention of Dynabook Junior in the last report. Has it been abandoned? replaced? On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Steve Taylor s...@ozemail.com.au wrote: -1 David Barbour wrote: `+1`? Really? I seriously do not appreciate having my mail spammed in this

Re: [fonc] Publish/subscribe vs. send

2012-03-19 Thread Benoît Fleury
Hi Casey, the decoupling of the event emitters and receivers is what I find the most interesting in a pub/sub model. The publisher raises an event (in its semantic domain) and does not know what subscribers are going to receive it or what they're going to do with it. One of the advantage of this

Re: [fonc] Publish/subscribe vs. send

2012-03-20 Thread Benoît Fleury
http://www.sparrowmailapp.com On Monday, March 19, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Benoît Fleury wrote: Hi Casey, the decoupling of the event emitters and receivers is what I find the most interesting in a pub/sub model. The publisher raises an event (in its semantic domain) and does not know what

[fonc] [talk] Cool Code - Kevlin Henney

2012-12-01 Thread Benoît Fleury
Although programming is a discipline with a very large canon of existing work to draw from, the only code most programmers read is the code they maintain. This topic came up a few times on this mailing list so I thought I would share this talk I found interesting.