This post is about a problem I’ve been trying to solve for a while now. I have a large data structure that represents, in the most general case, all the relationships between the data in a relational database. It’s like a big directory of all the contents in a database with tons of symbolic links. […]
In the 60’s and 70’s, a sociology professor named Gerald Gordon looked into factors that were conducive to innovation. What he and his colleagues found were two major abilities that were complementary to a person’s propensity to innovate: the ability to see the differences between things that seem similar and the ability to see the […]
While I was at the DevHouse, I mentioned Joshua to some people. Kragen pointed me to Jesse Ruderman’s JavaScript Shell. Alright, so it’s been done before. In fact, Jesse does everything I wanted and more, and is even more clever in implementation.
Then later, David pointed me to MochiKit’s Interpreter demo. Well, that wasn’t as […]