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Hey. I work on trendly/Dabble DB, and I used to work with PCF on opencongress.org. Good to see you using trendly. I hope you like it.

The first thing I wanted to see as a Smalltalker was how much they've baked Blocks into the libraries. I know Cocoa has always had very long method names, but some of these names a…

The interesting thing from my point of view is that the Delicious Library iPhone app doesn't make Amazon API calls for ISBNs. It synchronized with the desktop version of Delicious …

I refreshed the deactivate page, and it doesn't seem to be completely random, but it also isn't 100% the same every time. It seems to pick between the same 20 or so friends for me.…

They really seem to have gone beyond the terms of their funding and tried to extract the code into useful standalone pieces. Thanks for that, guys.

Pandora hasn't worked in Canada for at least a couple of years, so I wonder if this is even a new development.

This project has nontrivial pieces written in Squeak, Java, Ruby, and Javascript. The site has a dash of PHP.

The about page might be useful for you: http://trendly.com/about/

I don't understand why you need obfuscation for this. With customers of this size, you can have them sign a contract that protects your IP. Price in what you think is the risk, and…

This is something to be proud of, and github is great work. It's not really accurate, though because this lists every user's fork of a gem as a distinct gem. Here's a script I put …

What we do is run the RFBServer in squeak so we can connect directly to the running images on GUIless servers. This works pretty well.

I'd like to read about these, particularly about how they could be Constitutional, but I can't seem to find the correct words for a Google search. Would you post a link, or possibl…

Silly man.