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1 Nov, 15:20 @grammarware: RT @thiago_silva: A CS Research Topic Generator cs.purdue.edu #i4cs ※ @
15:28 @lsinger: RT @grammarware: RT @thiago_silva: A CS Research Topic Generator cs.purdue.edu #i4cs ※ @
15:44 @bugspy: Hilarious - RT @grammarware RT @thiago_silva: A CS Research Topic Generator cs.purdue.edu #i4cs19 minutes ago from web ※ @
16:27 @EelcoVisser: Back from Orlando (#oopsla09), packing for #BLDL in Bergen for @anyahelene's defense + talk on Composing Domain-Specific Languages ※ @

2 Nov, 11:40 @grammarware: Found out syntax highlighting is not always useful: dark red is invisible on a beamer, so 'cat x' worked better at today's lab than 'vi x'. ※ @
13:42 @corazonofmine: @grammarware Where can I find the slides form today's lab ? ※ @
- 15:08 @grammarware: @corazonofmine uni-koblenz.de ※ @
14:09 @anyahelene: 23 hours till my defence... ※ @
- 14:21 @grammarware: @anyahelene wow, good luck with the final countdown and with successfully fighting off all the tricky questions! ※ @
14:10 @JBezivin: RT @fbahr: @peterfriese's vis. vs txt. represent. poll brings about a consensus: general disagreement twtpoll.com ※ @
- 15:24 @markusvoelter: @JBezivin @fbahr @peterfriese ask this same question for programming... I assume no disagreement. Then: why the difference? ※ @
  - 17:19 @grammarware: @markusvoelter @JBezivin @fbahr @peterfriese picture coding has always been domain-specific, unlike textual coding (not talking just CS). ※ @
14:11 @grammarware: Deprived of my MacBookPro and lacking PowerPoint, did the lab slides in Google Docs — must say I'm pretty satisfied with it. Almost perfect! ※ @
15:10 @grammarware: Attended a Schäl Sick Brass Band concert this weekend, very classy & entertaining, songs from different countries, bass clarinet is amusing. ※ @
15:49 @tvdstorm: ls ※ @
- 17:14 @grammarware: @tvdstorm you started tweeting the commands to your shell instead of typing them directly? ※ @
16:05 @grammarware: RT@softmodeling: RT @JBezivin: Most influential people in #OpenSource mindtouch.com ※ @
17:07 @grammarware: The battery on my home wall clock started to die, causing the weirdest bug: the hour hand started moving slower. How untypical for hardware! ※ @
22:57 @agilenature: If haven't installed Xobni, you are missing a boost in email productivity ※ @
- 3 Nov, 1:42 @grammarware: @agilenature either that, or you're not using Outlook at all (say, preferring webmail). ※ @
  - 1:44 @agilenature: @grammarware true :-) ※ @

3 Nov, 3:48 @guwac: My MBP doesnt boot anymore. Sometimes it does but with a black screen. In these cases, I can access it from the Mac Mini. ※ @
- 4 Nov, 11:45 @grammarware: @guwac welcome to the club. (@grammarware, @notquiteabba, @oniroi, ...) ※ @
  - 13:30 @guwac: @grammarware the club of broken MBP owners? ※ @
    - 13:45 @grammarware: @guwac sounds too ambiguous, I don't feel that broken yet ;) How about "the club of owners of broken MBPs"? ※ @
5:09 @ELIZIUM: Стоит только поплакаться и приглашение на Google Wave пришло. Спасибо @gluek! ※ @
- 6:19 @gellaxy: @ELIZIUM А у вас уже есть возможность инвайты раздавать? Буду весьма признательна:) ※ @
  - 6 Nov, 10:13 @grammarware: @gellaxy вейвоинвайт могу без проблем выслать, просто отдыэмь мне свой адрес. ※ @
  - 6 Nov, 11:52 @grammarware: @gellaxy готово, выслал. Они последнее время тормозят, может пару дней "идти". Как дойдёт, пингани меня там, в ростовскую волну добавлю. ※ @
13:04 @grammarware: RT @akuhn: JavaScript in a single picture: i.imgur.com ※ @
14:34 @elsvene: RT @grammarware: RT @akuhn: JavaScript in a single picture: i.imgur.com ※ @
15:23 @leopoldomt: LOL! sacanagem, mas faz um "certo" sentido... =) RT @grammarware: RT @akuhn: JavaScript in a single picture: i.imgur.com ※ @
15:43 @danillobatista: RT @leopoldomt, @grammarware, @akuhn: JavaScript in a single picture: i.imgur.com ※ @
16:04 @grammarware: Internet totally made the whole "parts of the day" concept obsolete. ※ @
19:13 @grammarware: Twitter magic: I'm using my old HP laptop since my new MBP broke, and now I'm suddenly followed by "HP laptop owners club" (@hpfan_ru). ※ @
19:16 @grammarware: Wearing an "I'm a software language engineer" t-shirt is dangerous: came up with a new language while listening to @notquiteabba's lecture. ※ @
19:30 @softmodeling: RT @grammarware: Wearing an "I'm a software language engineer" t-shirt is dangerous: came up with a new language ※ @
19:49 @grammarware: Sketched the schema for the new language (see last twit) called EDD. Going out for dinner, will hack up a tool & tweet more when I get back. ※ @

4 Nov, 1:06 @guwac: Software Language Engineers: We have grammarware and modelware. But how do we call the technical spaces of XML, DBMS, APIs, ontologies,... ? ※ @
- 1:16 @notquiteabba: @guwac xmlware (not a new kid on the block), APIware (have seen this elsewhere), ontoware not new either (that spelling?), DBMS? Don't know. ※ @
2:11 @guwac: thanks @notquiteabba @ ※ @
- 2:18 @notquiteabba: @guwac You're right, I never quite understood schemaware; relational and hierarchical scheme/as deserve different *ware abbrv's. ※ @
2:18 @guwac: some more names: documentware for XML, dataware for DBMS. ※ @
- 11:41 @grammarware: @guwac I also happened to coin "domainware" a while back twitter.com ※ @
- 11:42 @grammarware: @guwac yet again, documentware is a bad name for xmlware. We happily use XML for grammarware, configuration-ware, DSLs and all kinds of shit ※ @
2:51 @grammarware: One thing led to the other... in short, I've just got back from "dinner". However, got some nice ideas about the last tweet in the meantime. ※ @
2:55 @grammarware: Ideas list for the EDD-based tool includes generation of DCGs with XSLT, normalisation of EBNF and other similarly crazy and wonderful items ※ @
2:56 @grammarware: Writing, editing and refactoring source code using a guitar youtube.com (via a non-tweeting friend) ※ @
3:04 @softmodeling: RT @grammarware: Writing, editing and refactoring source code using a guitar youtube.com ※ @
8:25 @ugotit: erwartet dann in @OOPM alle mit Gitarre youtube.com (via @grammarware) ※ @
8:39 @oopm: RT @ugotit erwartet dann in @OOPM alle mit Gitarre youtube.com (via @grammarware) ※ @
10:21 @markusvoelter: Arrays and pointers in C are really quite unintuitive and non-trivial! ※ @
- 10:23 @HBehrens: @markusvoelter how is that? Think in assemler: pointers and arrays are really just offsets ※ @
  - 14:53 @markusvoelter: @HBehrens if you try to implement a language and typesystem for all this it really is a lot of details :-) ※ @
- 11:37 @grammarware: @markusvoelter as @HBehrens said, C is a low-level language. * and & have very clear, very well-defined, yet very down to Earth meanings. ※ @
  - 15:00 @markusvoelter: @grammarware see my two recent replies to this :-) ※ @
- 13:32 @stilkov: @markusvoelter: “Arrays and pointers in C are really quite unintuitive and non-trivial!” - Why? I always found C quite clear and obvious. ※ @
  - 14:56 @markusvoelter: @stilkov implementing a language and typesystem for it is a lot of details, especially if it should be safer as in standard C. ※ @
10:56 @jurgenvinju: Syntax is the most costly and important success-factor of any DSL and don't let anybody tell you otherwise ※ @
- 11:28 @grammarware: @jurgenvinju I assume you mean concrete syntax and parsing/highlighting/pretty-printing? Proofs concerning semantics are usually trickier ;) ※ @
  - 11:44 @jurgenvinju: @grammarware My tweet implies that tricky proofs concerning semantics are not the most important success-factor for a DSL ;-) ※ @
  - 11:45 @jurgenvinju: @grammarware And, I mean the design and use of the concrete syntax, not the tools to implement it. ※ @
11:31 @grammarware: I noticed that I have 2222 followers and 22 lists include me. Too bad it's not yet 11.11 or something like that! ※ @
11:32 @grammarware: RT @abstratt: TextUML Toolkit release 1.4 is out: sourceforge.net ※ @
14:01 @grammarware: A piece of ever useful statistics: RT @short_men: On average, a person earns $789 more per inch in height. ※ @
- 14:55 @Felienne: @grammarware so probably I will never be rich :( ;) ※ @
  - 15:39 @corpaul: @grammarware @Felienne excellent, this means I will be very rich :D (I wonder if it also counts for + inches in width!) ※ @
    - 15:49 @grammarware: @corpaul @Felienne if height is for how much you earn, width can be for how often. ※ @
      - 16:42 @corpaul: @grammarware doesn't really matter for me, I'm rich both ways :) ※ @
15:31 @grammarware: "Static scope is usually what you want (if you are a decent person)" -@notquiteabba at @yaplcourse ※ @
15:35 @darcia: "Static scope is usually what you want (if you are a decent person)" - @notquiteabba (via @grammarware) ※ @
16:08 @grammarware: The never ending "what to teach in CS" holy war breaks down again: joelonsoftware.com stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com timcowlishaw.co.uk ※ @
16:09 @grammarware: The main problem is not what to teach, but how to set goals. Do we want MSc CS to be coders? Developers? Designers? Mathematicians? Hackers? ※ @
- 16:10 @bigballofmud: @grammarware All of the above except for mathematicans. ※ @
  - 16:13 @grammarware: @bigballofmud the "all of the above" answer needs priorities attached. Why not mathematicians? Algorithm theory, type systems, verification… ※ @
    - 16:18 @bigballofmud: @grammarware That WAS a a priority call. MsC progs already place too little emphasis on dev skills and too much on theory. Then we get 'em. ※ @
      - 16:23 @grammarware: @bigballofmud do we really need universities to train coders/developers? 5 years and a gang of professors is an overkill if you want that. ※ @
        16:52 @bigballofmud: @grammarware Your categories are laden w/implicit caste distinctions I failed to discern at first. If anything, grads 2day are undertrained. ※ @
        5 Nov, 14:13 @grammarware: @bigballofmud that is, "undertrained in what you think they should be trained". Hence, wrong curriculum for the lack of clarity in the goals ※ @

5 Nov, 0:07 @grammarware: жил на свете агреже скрюченные ножки, и гулял он неглиже по скрюченной дорожке. ※ @
21:54 @yaplcourse: RT @grammarware "Static scope is usually what you want (if you are a decent person)" -@manyware at @yaplcourse ※ @
10:08 @ELIZIUM: Ох, зачем так засорять ростовскую ветку в Google Wave? Тормоза! ※ @
- 6 Nov, 10:13 @grammarware: @ELIZIUM это ещё её почистили, пару дней назад там в каждом из первых комментариев какой-то страшный многометровый гаджет был, в каждом свой ※ @
12:42 @grammarware: RT @programmingjoy: The Bad Practices of Exception Handling hans-eric.com ※ @
14:13 @grammarware: Happiness Hat will improve your social interaction skills lauren-mccarthy.com ※ @
14:13 @grammarware: The main secret behind @WebDSL is that people who use it have three hands: twitpic.com (via @zef). ※ @
- 14:14 @corpaul: @grammarware cool, I could use 3 hands ※ @
15:13 @grammarware: Sent invites to the new SE 2.0 & Research 2.0 website to everyone whom I know will be interested. If you haven't got one and want one, reply ※ @
16:13 @webdsl: RT @grammarware: The main secret behind @WebDSL is that people who use it have three hands: twitpic.com (via @zef). ※ @
23:13 @grammarware: Итог двадцати одного века прогресса: у Горация было «лови момент», а сейчас чаще получается «лови комент». ※ @

6 Nov, 0:15 @j_ham3: RT @jarada0077: Wow. Just wow. beavis.hb0da.org Amazing how lazy people can get... ※ @
- 7:13 @grammarware: @j_ham3 I've always said Coca-Cola is evil. He does care about how he looks, though - note the hairbrush carefully placed on top of the mess ※ @
1:15 @softmodeling: Software that tries to be everything to everyone generally sucks - 37 signals ※ @
- 6:13 @grammarware: @softmodeling why did I think of general purpose languages when I read that sentence? ;) ※ @
  - 12:20 @softmodeling: @grammarware :-) ※ @
5:15 @agilenature: TweetDeck Promises to Add Twitter Lists Support Soon blog.tweetdeck.com ※ @
- 7:13 @grammarware: @agilenature of course they do & they will. Twitter lists are the only way for me to survive since I had to give up my TweetDeck for a while ※ @
6:13 @grammarware: #FolowFriday @grandmastasmoke — the guy who got me into @googlewave (also my fellow-townsman). Twits in Russian. ※ @
7:13 @grammarware: Nice! RT @marshallk: Make Your Apps Smooth Like Gmail: Google Open Sources UI Javascript Tools readwriteweb.com ※ @
10:13 @grammarware: Coming to work late, you always feel like you've missed something. By showing up at 7am you realise nothing happens here before lunch. #i4cs ※ @
10:15 @PaulKlint: Replace dining-philosophers problem by laptop-users-fighting-for-power-outlet problem (inspired by Carl Seger) ※ @
- 11:37 @EelcoVisser: @PaulKlint sharing power outlets is less problematic than sharing cutlery ※ @
  - 12:03 @grammarware: @EelcoVisser without using additional hardware? I doubt so. OTOH, if additional hardware were allowed, the original problem would be easy. ※ @
11:58 @Slaventuss: У меня сегодня, может, случится юбилейный день: 300 фолловеров и 1000 твитов:) ※ @
- 12:00 @grammarware: @Slaventuss три десятка твитов за полдня? Да вы, батенька, оптимист ;) Хотя, учитывая прежнюю активность, удивлюсь не сильно. ※ @
12:03 @grammarware: RT @PaulKlint: Replace dining-philosophers problem by laptop-users-fighting-for-power-outlet problem (inspired by Carl Seger). ※ @
12:07 @grammarware: Seems like a good book. #bookmark #toread RT @PaulKlint: The Fourth Paradigm, free download at research.microsoft.com ※ @
12:45 @akuhn: Agreed @grammarware, and to throw in one more: do we want MSc CS to be engineers or researchers? ※ @

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