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Postings in March 2009

Going green?

After quite some time I now rediscovered how much fun biking once was in my life. Perhaps fun is not the right word, it is rather a kind of relaxing work-out to me (and I detest work-outs). Of course I underestimated the distance to the office by at least 4 kilometres. No surprise I was knackered after the first day!

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C++ Template Poisoning

Today I was sick. At first I thought, "Ha, serves you right for eating dead animals!", but then I realized this weren't the usual kind of stomach problems. All of a sudden it struck me - I had a C++ Template Poisoning!

So what happened? I've been busy picking up C++ over the last weeks, mostly from reading books. When I ...

NXTalk

I've been visiting a Squeak meeting this weekend, and what impressed me most was the NXTalk talk (heh!) by Martin Beck. Yep, NXT. With other words, a stripped-down Smalltalk VM for your LEGO® Mindstorm roboter - fun!

Thanks again for forwarding the invitation mail, Nicolas.