vademecum (va•de•me•cum Latin “go with me”) - A handbook or other collection of instructions, that is intended to be carried about and provide ready reference
All the magic is here.
That’s right folks, it’s basically an Arduino processor (ok, it’s not really, he slowed his processor down by messing with how it was clocked (something that to be honest with you, I barely understand) but still). It’s a contest that starts at 75Mhz and goes down to 8Mhz:
The award they were competing for?
Check it all out here
Because it’s something that I know about, but not that I know…I think that’s the challenge. I’ve mentioned in certain places, on my facebook account, that I’m working on a book called Programming Interactivity for O’Reilly that is going to focus on tools and techniques for interactive design and interactive art. I’ll probably be writing more about this, but I’ll just say that right now, it’s very challenging and exciting and a little scary. My last post was a real random blurb, so here’s a little Keith Fullerton Whitman, to try and smooth out that random-ness:
And I’ll be bringing my bike, if anyone wants to tag along along around San Francisco and a little beyond :)
More details to come.
On another note I found Instruction Set
Every month some instructions appear on instructionset.org.
Instructions may be vague or specific. Your challenge is to write software to carry out the instruction.
You may pick any programming or patching language you wish, and may stretch the definition of ‘programming language’ and ’software’ if you like.
I’m stuck in nyc while OSCON is going on in everyones darling favorite city of the moment (Portland (remember when it was Seattle?), Oregon) and I’m wishing I was there. I’ll just be furtively searching blogs for news from the conference for the next few days, and on that note:
on practical erlang programming 1
on practical erlang programming 2
on practical erlang programming 3
That’s a talk being given by Francesco Cesarini, who along with Jan Henry Nystrom is working on the Practical Erlang book for O’Reilly, which I’m quite excited about getting my hands on. That’s all I’ve heard from now. I’m quite looking forward to news and notes from the Beautiful Concurrency talk as well, but I’ll just have to sit on my hands here in nyc :(
The most fun awesome thing happened to me last night, overnight, this morning, and today.
Look here:
http://digg.com/programming/recruiter_stupidly_CC_s_400_coders_and_one_replies_all
here:
http://groups.google.com/group/pradiptas-rolodex?hl=en
and finally:
It’s been fun :)
It’s here. Not to do stupid blog-o-mongering, but it is pretty important. Thank you Señor Moock.
