the flying squirrel

Cross-posted at the Waterloo Wellington Blogger’s Association. Ellen and I spotted the flier when we were at the Perimeter Institute concert last night and since they’re about a block away from work and I had to get some stuff done today, I decided to give it a shot. Then I decided I should introduce myself [...]

It’s Ada Lovelace Day. Here’s my post: Barbara Liskov is a pioneering computer scientist and winner of the ACM Turing Award for 2008. She’s currently head of the Programming Methodology Group in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Back in the 70s, she designed a programming language called CLU, which established fundamental concepts about [...]

The new workplace uses Subversion for version control. That’s cool. I know Subversion. It works, and it’s well-supported everywhere. For ages, though, I’ve been wanting to try out distributed version control systems, but except for putting a few personal projects (which no one else is working on, defeating much of the purpose) in git, I [...]