The end of the year is not only a time to look back, but also forward. Read on for what’s in store for Streamhead. It’s going to be a great year, so make sure you don’t miss a post. If you become a Facebook fan, you not only get the latest posts, but also a bunch of supremely interesting links. Or if you prefer to receive the posts by mail, use the field just below this post. And of course, there’s always the feed to bend Streamhead to your every wish.
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28 Dec 2010
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New Media and the World
Trying out new programming languages is fun, building Io on Windows is not. The Io language is developed on Mac OS X and it shows. There are no binary builds and you need a fairly standard *nix based system to compile it. Here are the steps to get Io running on Windows (and why you might want to).
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24 Dec 2010
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Graphics, Visuals and Texts
Ubiquity lets you browse the social web by typing, not pointing. In 2008, Mozilla Labs launched an ambitious project: a natural language interface for the web 2.0. It is now no longer in active development, but is still maintained to be compatible with the latest Firefox. So you can still enjoy this mature piece of research.
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21 Dec 2010
Two weeks ago, Streamhead turned 3. Combined with the years end, it seems like a great idea to look back and reflect on why you might want to write your own blog and how you can enjoy the process in the long run. Because if you don’t, you’re probably not going to last a long time. So in this post I present 9 guidelines that help me keep going.
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17 Dec 2010
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Java and JavaScript
“I found the shift from thinking in tests to thinking in behaviour so profound that I started to refer to TDD as BDD, or behaviour driven development.” – Dan North
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