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Continuation Fest 2008

I had received the announcement for the Continuation Fest 2008, but then completely forgot about it. Back in mid-April, some neat stuff was going on in Tokyo:

[Edit: fixed url.]

By Tommy McGuire at 2008-08-13 15:19 | General | Implementation | other blogs | 9936 reads

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Slides: Continuing from the Past

Here are a set of slides. Link in the post is broken.

By naasking at Wed, 2008-08-13 15:38 | login or register to post comments

Sorry about that.

Sorry about that. I've fixed the link.

By Tommy McGuire at Wed, 2008-08-13 22:41 | login or register to post comments

Infernal Device

Your paper on the Infernal Device got me thinking about continuations and web interaction again. I didn't like the use of embedded HTML though. Your discussion of browser storage particularly got the old wheels turning.

I had originally ported the Waterken server to ASP.NET awhile ago, but programs written for a persistent distributed object system like the Waterken web-calculus have fairly stringent requirements and require a great deal of forethought. The approach described in the Infernal Device paper looked like it could provide a decent balance of flexibility and ease of use.

So I built a small "mobile continuations on the web" library for ASP.NET. You can see a small running example here.

Basically, a program is structured as a set of displayable continuation objects. When a continuation is displayed, it embed references to subsequent continuations so the client can navigate them. The embedded continuations are either a promise (a link), or inlined (generates a form). This display approach could still use some work, but it works.

By naasking at Mon, 2008-08-18 20:09 | login or register to post comments