Bar Camp Zürich I was at BarCampZurich, today. (See 2006-08-30 Bar Camp Zürich.) I wanted to talk about WikiNameSpace & NearLink & MultilingualWiki & Oddmuse.
There was a nice resumé about the state of Podcasting in Germany.
The SubEthaEdit guys were here, talking about the design of their real-time collaborative editor. Ott mentioned that the change tracking features in Word are not good enough for most asynchronous uses, eg. journalists & editors. This might be relevant for wikis! Who wrote what, and when. What kind of info do editors need? Ott also talked about the importance of presence and awareness: Who is online? He mentioned how easy Bonjour makes this, since you don’t have to worry about NAT routers & firewalls. What documents do others “own”? What are they looking at? “Follow” mode. Interesting stuff.
There was a session by the creator of Brainfuck, Urban Müller. Amazing. Check out the Brainfuck Wiki. Or the Javascript Brainfuck Interpreter / Debugger. Urban works for search.ch and guess what... It turns out that the BrainFuck interpreter and compiler MarioLang had written in 2002 had bugs. That’s terrible! I had to fix it immediately. I uploaded the updated version to EmacsWiki:bf.el.
Javascript Brainfuck Interpreter / Debugger
I decided I need to give it a try and implemented a multiplicator. Example:
(bf-run "+++ > +++++++++++
[ < [ - >> + > + <<< ]
>>> [ - <<< + >>> ] << - ]
> . ")
And the result of 3 × 11 = 33, ie. the ASCII exclamation mark!
I also liked the demonstration of the Tails extension for Firefox that was presented as part of the talk on microformats. Having aggregators crawl websites and collect calendar info and people info stored all over the web made a lot of sense to me, I think. This point of view also explains why only developers of publishing tools (wikis, blogs) and aggregators (feed readers, search engines, calendar subscription services) should have to worry about microformats. That focus, obviously, is not a property of the format being “micro” – the same is true for vCards, for example. Except that few sites use it an a truly open way. The Swiss telephone number search site by search.ch offers vCards for download, for example. Anyway, I replaced the picture of my BusinessCard with an hCard on my About page.
The Swiss telephone number search site by search.ch
My own talk was about MultilingualWebsites.
Links to the presentations themselves are on the barcamp website.
And I had interesting discussions with ChristopheDucamp and some of his friends (organizers of WineCamp and Bar Camp Alsace in France) and Axel Stefan Beckert.
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I love the language BEATNIK. The following sample source code prints “Hi”:
Baa, badassed areas! Jarheads’ arses queasy nude adverbs! Dare address abase adder? *bares baser dadas* HA! Equalize, add bezique, bra emblaze. He (quezal), aeons liable. Label lilac “bulla,” ocean sauce! Ends, addends, duodena sounded amends.
– Chris 2006-10-28 20:29 UTC
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Merci Alex pour cette recommandation de promenade dans Zurich. Ces conversations furent un plaisir et je serai heureux de pouvoir vous inviter avec ton amie à venir nous rendre visite dans Paris. A bientôt pour reparler des coûts d’une localisation francophone du OddWiki ;) – ChristopheDucamp
– ChristopheDucamp 2006-10-30 19:26 UTC