Feh is the only image viewer that is both easy to install and use on the XO.
I never thought I would use the XO as an image viewer until I found how convenient it was to pass around to folks in lieu of a much larger laptop.
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Conference Paper Word Templates
Back when my co-worker and I were preparing some white-papers (the research was the hard part), we decided to present them in “conference paper layout” initially.
SIGPLAN provides some such templates for MS Word here.
Alternately, here are some local copies:
sigplanconf.dot
sigplanconf-varsize.dot
OLPC XO OS build 703 changes
OLPC XO OS build 703 has at least two significant changes:
The first is that it automatically suspend when closed, with this caveat:
the system can’t suspend when the USB bus is in use by an external device (unless it’s a USB mass storage device and has been fully allowed to write any cached info and quiesce itself).
This might not seem like a big deal, but folks have been wanting it for a long time.
The second is that activities no longer come pre-installed in the OS image.
Typed Scheme
Typed Scheme is a typed dialect of PLT Scheme. It integrates with modules written in other PLT dialects, and provides a type system designed to support common Scheme idioms.
Typed Scheme is a pretty neat language because it can can both use and be used by (untyped) Scheme code in PLT Scheme.
Updated: How to Learn Programming
See here
An interview with Charles H. Moore
This interview with Charles H. Moore is a great read.
I think it behooves new programmers to sample all the languages available. Forth is the only one that’s fun. The satisfaction of finding a neat representation cannot be equaled in Fortran, C or even Lisp.
Well clearly he hasn’t tried out Scheme 🙂
(via Dave)
10 Essential Emacs Tips
One man’s vision…
Why Computer Science Doesn’t Matter
Why Computer Science Doesn’t Matter is an essay about the lack of computer science in the educational curriculum today, and what can be done about it. They’ve come up with an interesting, and successful, approach.
[I want] to place computing where it belongs: in the hearts and minds of every single student.
Here here!
Interactive debugging utility for PLT Scheme
Eli released a library to facilitate interactive debugging in PLT Scheme.
ADDENDUM:11/15/11
Corrected the linked file name.
DEFUN08: ACM SIGPLAN 2008 Developer Tracks on Functional Programming
DEFUN 2008 invites functional programmers who know how to solve
problems with functional progamming to give talks and lead tutorials
at the The ICFP Developer Tracks.
We want to know about your favorite programming techniques, powerful
libraries, and engineering approaches you’ve used that the world
should know about and apply to other projects. We want to know how to
be productive using functional programming, write better code, and
avoid common pitfalls.
ICFP08 looks like a lot of fun!
(via PLT)