Google wave is dead

...yeah, the "king of the interactive communication is dead, long live the king".

While enthusiastic in the beginning, I must say that we didn't used it as much as we thought we'd be. The technology behind it however is awesome, but I must agree, the implementation wasn’t the greatest. It should be embedded in google docs and integrated with email and IM. I think I already saw some of that in google docs recently…

For instance click on an email thread and "turn to wave". Or the same in IM, think of it as "persisting the thread".

In google docs, the use of this is obvious: it's turning any doc into a version controled repository, real time wiki with embedded forum etc...yeah, makes sense. Every software MUST now have this: every wiki, every forum, every Word application...they simply must! Getting this question in a flashing status bar of your favorite Word app "Do you accept interactive edit of this document, from John@somegeeks.com?". Hell, yeah...

The "playback" feature was underutilized.

May be surprising, but I used it mostly as an internet pad to copy/paste quotes, ideas, links and later develop them. Also to copy/paste things between laptops/computers, save them for later etc.

An "internet research pad", where you could invite others etc...that I still think it's worthy of its own site.

I will, spare time existing, look at integrating this with my script pad: http://scripster.razie.com/play/session - That would be bespinningly interesting.

As always, don't hold your breath.

Blogger is stupid

Trying to edit a blog (this one) I've had it: this editor right here is one of the worst I've used in a long time. It's still close to impossible to quote nice code snippets and the html it generates is riddled with DIV tags worse than a word document.

I guess this is the fate of things. The bad ones become good enough and the good get worse.

Shame. I shall investigate options to blogger, since the best voting is done with the feet...or, in this case, with the...fingertips...?

I shall create my own nice code quoting system, based on the scripster I just put together. I should probably thank them for the idea...

[EDIT] The code quoting is up and running - just need to work on embedding the quotes now. Try it at www.codewitter.com

Implementing a state machine in scala DSL

I had a bit of fun in the past few days writing a telnet server implementation in #scala. Part of that was implementing a state machine, which I then cleaned up so the definitions are simple.

The rest of this post was moved to:
http://www.coolscala.com/wiki/Cool_Scala/Implementing_a_state_machine_in_scala_DSL
and
http://www.coolscala.com/wiki/Cool_Scala/Implementing_the_Telnet_state_machine