William Grosso @ January 2, 2009
So I’m preparing the slides for my talk on Tuesday, which is turning out to involve a lot of thinking about programming languages.
One of the thing’s I’m revisiting is a talk by Todd Proebsting entitled “Disruptive Programming Language Technologies”1
It’s a glossy talk, very high level and talking about what might make for the next great [...]
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William Grosso @ December 26, 2008
I’m spending most of today preparing for my upcoming Java SIG talk (Jan 6, Cubberley Community Center in Mountain View). The abstract for the talk is:
The rise of next-generation languages that run on top of the JVM is probably the most interesting thing to happen in the Java universe since the combination of the Spring [...]
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William Grosso @ December 21, 2008
I spoke at SDForum on December 4. It happened like this:
Sometime over the summer, I was unemployed. I had just left Engage, wasn’t yet at Twofish, and was playing around with some ideas and some technologies.
Paul O’Rorke, who ought to know better, invited me to speak at the SAM SIG.
I accepted and said something like [...]
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William Grosso @ September 27, 2008
Another week, another great SDForum Event.
I’ve been a volunteer at SDForum for a while, helping it educate the valley about the almost-bleeding edge in software. And, I’m proud to say: the organization is continuing to do amazing things.
Witness: the cloud computing event.
With our typical quasi-engineering skill at marketing, the first thing you see is the [...]
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William Grosso @ May 23, 2008
This blog used to be called “Wander, Think, Repeat.” That was a good name — it encapsulated what I do most of the time: I wander around, I listen to people, and I think. Then I do it again. And again. In short, it summarized a lot about me in one short phrase1 [...]
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William Grosso @ November 27, 2006
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William Grosso @ October 7, 2006
Then holiday themed baby photos are perfectly appropriate.
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William Grosso @ October 7, 2006
If you’re at all interested in the current world chess championships, I highly recommend Susan Polgar’s Blog. I would also have recommended The Kenilworthian, but it just went on sabbatical until 2007.
In any case, it’s fun to watch the games. I play chess badly and what I realized is this: for those of us who [...]
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William Grosso @ September 15, 2006
For some reason, people have been speaking in aphorisms to me today.
Three were actually repeated by more than one person.
It’s time to jump or get off the ledge.
If you can’t be with the one you love: you’re selling yourself short
What am I going to do? Wait around for a check?
Why am I recording this? Because [...]
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William Grosso @ September 8, 2006
Dave Winer, him what pioneered blogs and RSS and OPML, said this today:
For some reason there’s less startup activity on the east side than on the other side of the bay. Not sure why, but I see this as a chance to bootstrap something more thoughtful and with more longevity. I hope it doesn’t become [...]
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