Ward Cunningham working on new wiki software (progress videos)
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The fact that he's an old-school hacker and is still building innovative things is really cool. I kind of want to call him a living fossil, but I think that might have some connotations. He contributes new ideas in a timeless way.
Right, when looking back. :) As a participant in the original wiki, I remember it felt very innovative at the time. Back then, the Internet was a one-way street: something you read.
I really enjoyed listening to his appearance on This Developer's Life: http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/1-0-6-abstraction
However thus far it was just to leave one comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2911327
Interesting to see Ward 'discover' a new wiki variant (listen how often he states that the software he is writing 'wants to be X')
I am not really familiar with it, but I think this could be called 'pragmatic Xanadu' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu). It will be interesting of this will be successful, or whether it will eventually run into the deep problems that project Xanadu thought it had to solve to be successful.
"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it”. [1]
It also seems to me that he is keeping the Law of Demeter [2] in mind as well.
It's a beautiful way to be! Bravo Mr. Cunningham!
[1] http://www.michelangelo-gallery.com/quotes.aspx [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter