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Comment on Java status bar by Droscy

Droscy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:34:22 +0000

Thanks very much.

Comment on Java status bar by Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:09:02 +0000

Well it’s not much, but I’ve uploaded it: StatusBar.zip. HTH

Comment on Java status bar by Droscy

Droscy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:39:39 +0000

Hi, I find your StatusBar very interesting. Can you give me it’s source code?

Thanks

Comment on ArgKit: An argumentation toolkit by Robert Bowerman

Robert Bowerman — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:02:48 +0000

I was the one who added Dung to the argumentation entry
on Wikipedia! Have you talked to the Cancer Research ACL guys working on argumentation? Congrats on doing your library. Argumentation is applicable anywhere professional debate occurs, which is in so many professions.

Comment on ArgKit: An argumentation toolkit by Matt

Matt — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:09:04 +0000

I made some updates to this entry… added a screencap and tidied up the prose.

Comment on The importance of being willing to ask stupid questions by Mario

Mario — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:51:18 +0000

And I wish I could edit my comments… As obviously, I don’t agree with the “fool for five minutes” bit…

Comment on The importance of being willing to ask stupid questions by Mario

Mario — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:50:07 +0000

The only stupid question is a question that isn’t asked. I was going to type a whole long essay in reply to this post about how I completely agree with the spirit of this post, but don’t believe stupid questions exist, but it all just boiled down to that cliché.

“Ask and you’re a fool for five minutes, don’t ask and you’re a fool for a lifetime” (paraphrased). I’m full of clichés today!

Comment on Concept of the day: cargo cults by Mario

Mario — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:03:42 +0000

I hadn’t heard about cargo cults before, but couldn’t resist talking about it when I discovered some cargo cultish behaviour in a code review today. Thanks Matt.

Comment on Greetings card archive by Mario

Mario — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:03:00 +0000

I’ve stopped using my scanner in favour of my digital camera. It’s a lot quicker, and good enough for the things I’ve done with it, although I think that in this case you’d be wanting to do a lot of cropping of the resulting images to make it look nice.

Comment on Hackday London by Mark Birbeck

Mark Birbeck — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:59:30 +0000

Hi Matt,

The big shame about the wireless was it meant that we didn’t get enough time with the new APIs. Whilst I didn’t leave early, I did have to switch to building a completely different application that didn’t require the network.

It was even more of a let down because I had no idea that Yahoo! were working on FireEagle, and I could have leapt for joy when I saw the demo. It’s the missing piece in an application I’ve been thinking about for a long time, so I would have really liked to have worked with it during Hackday.

But the reason I’m adding my comments is to simply say that despite the network-induced frustration which we share, it has to be said that the event was incredibly well organised. For a start, I’m amazed that the red-T-shirted helpers always had a smile and polite demeanour throughout the entire period, including the middle of the night. And attendees probably aren’t aware that after the wireless was fixed a BT engineer stayed on-site–albeit having a snooze–just in case anything else went wrong. Added to that the fact that the organisers managed to move hundreds of people around the building with no fuss after the roof opened automatically to let the rain in and even organised to get them power as batteries started to fade, and the whole thing just looked like a master-class in ‘unobtrusive organising’.

Regards,

Mark

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