TradeMaximizer supports multi-party trades in which each party offers up items for trade, and selects items that they wish to receive. The system then finds the largest set of items that can be traded simultaneously.
Read about how you might apply it.
If you don’t run Sugar on your XO, you need to configure your wireless connection somehow, and a lot of folks use wifi-radar, myself included.
While experimenting with it tonight, I noticed that the wireless connection on my other computer quit working periodically. Eventually I did put two and two together and found that everything worked fine when I wasn’t running wifi-radar!
Resolving this is of low-priority.
Peter’s library provides a way to design user interfaces in XML.
The user specifies the layout of the dialog window in XML. The interaction is also specified in a simple way, setting values or labels and setting actions which should occur when the user clicks on the specific widget. An example can be found in the package.
(via PLT Discuss)
Language level logging support has been added to to PLT Scheme.
Why not in a library?
so that the run-time system can report information through logging.
ADDENDUM: 11/15/11
Here is the documentation.
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Ben demonstrates how to utilize nondeterministic computing in his article Escape From Zurg.
In 1997, on his retirement from Bell Labs, Doug McIlroy gave a fascinating talk about the “History of Computing at Bell Labs.”
Here is one man’s transcription of that talk.
I only skimmed over it (at the moment I’m not interested in what was); but nonetheless it does look like a great talk with a lot of fun and interesting bits in there.
