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by Brian McCallister.
Original Post: Scoble's Geek Dinner
Feed Title: Waste of Time
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I dropped in on Scoble's geek
dinner thing down the street. I admit I had an agenda -- I
wanted to catch up with Avi
Bryant whom I have wanted to meet for a while as I think he does
very interesting hacking, and as Dabble looks really cool. He
demonstrated it for the Flock guys and myself and it makes gmail
look like SquirrelMail in terms web applications compared to
web sites. Very nice! I particularly like the hands-on data
mucking aspect.
Along the way met at least one, possible more, of the Flock folks, who are all of a
couple blocks away. Nice guy(s). Flock is actually much slicker than
I had thought, too. They keep pushing it as a social bookmarking
thing, which is not all that exciting to me. It is way more. I'm
glad Andy showed me around the corners of it some. Need to break out
the Javascript!
FInally, I may have conned Avi into giving me a Squeak
tutorial. Apparently he suffered from the same "this cannot be
serious" reaction I keep having to Squeak (and even Visual Works,
though that is less glaringly obnoxious). Apparently when someone
who is good shows you around things start clicking. I'll believe it
after seeing what he's done. I would not want to write that in any
kind of model 2 framework, period.
Fun time, hope to see ya'll again before too long!
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