Patrick Cooney's Weblog

March

2006-04-17

Moving home is disruptive. Moving four times since October '05 is very disruptive. My hacking suffers, and consequently my blogging suffers. Nonetheless... in the absence of any productive work, here is a grab-bag of _stuff_:

Cool news coming out the PLAS group at QUT - a Ruby for .NET implementation project is well underway. More information here and some slides from SSCLI 2005 here. Also rumblings about some Visual Studio work that sounds excellent.

I saw Geoffrey Moore (Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado) speak in Redmond last month. He puts on a good show: at once a shameless audience-flatterer and hard-truth-teller, with a good line on the software business. Specifically, he riffs on the Innovator's Dilemma/Only the Paranoid Survive disruption thesis and turns it into a broader and more nuanced division into classes of innovation. Too much for me to consume at one sitting, but there's more on his blog.

My Tiger compiler implementation inches forward. I have ~70% of the type checker done. Tonight - recursive type definitions. This weekend - intermediate code.

At Dominic's recommendation I am listening to the Venture Voice podcast. Interesting subjects and good questions, recommended.

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