It’s been a while here; I’ve been having far too much fun to have any time to write about it. But I thought I’d quickly share a few off-the-cuff tips for people looking to visit, stay in, or move to the city. Read on…

Bjarne Stroustrup, designer of C++:

All that said, I don’t know what the next major conceptual shift will be, but I bet that it will somehow be related to the management of concurrency. As programmers, we have been notoriously bad at thinking about lots of things happening simultaneously, and soon our everyday computers will have 32 cores.

From a recent interview in Technology Review, part 1 and part 2. Read on…

A handful of people emailed me about WP-Cats not working with the newest Wordpress. I’ve fixed the problem now—the compatible version is available as WP-Cats 0.13a. Over the past couple months, I’ve also received a number of feature requests for it, many of which I think would be useful and sensible, so expect to see a proper update at some point in the future.

Also, I now have a much better understanding of how to properly use closures and JS objects, so that truly heinous JavaScript will get cleaned up a bit, too.

Brandon pointed out to me the new website for the Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Department has launched, featuring my logo in the document footer, similar to how ECE’s is.

My understanding is that there will be an official unveiling in the summer term, at which I’ll be asked to give a brief explanation of process and inspiration. So you can all come out to that with your clappers and big foam fingers… or just know that the inspiration was doodling on a tablecloth at Montana’s, and the software used was the excellent Inkscape.