http://www.johnbreslin.com/blog/2000/04/30/overview-plant/ John Breslin's Blog Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:05:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.johnbreslin.com/blog/2000/04/30/overview-plant/#comment-167417 A lot of social software could be called nosyware… at Cloudlands Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:08:59 +0000 http://www.johnbreslin.com/blog/?p=119#comment-167417 <p>[...] In fact, I found yet a third version of this utility (written by Peter Muldoon in FORTRAN, and called PLANT.FOR), which I adopted as my own and kept modifying for another four years. During this time, PLANT»> grew to about 700 lines long, could do multiple room views, supported timed / continuous refreshes, allowed people to create personal display aliases for the users being shown on screen, and even had a baby brother called SAPLING (groan!). In its heyday, there were about 180 people who regularly used the program… In essence, PLANT»> was just a search-and-replace utility, which I reduced to two lines of code in a 1995 cgi-bin version (see previous blog entry on WebPLANT»>). [...]</p> [...] In fact, I found yet a third version of this utility (written by Peter Muldoon in FORTRAN, and called PLANT.FOR), which I adopted as my own and kept modifying for another four years. During this time, PLANT»> grew to about 700 lines long, could do multiple room views, supported timed / continuous refreshes, allowed people to create personal display aliases for the users being shown on screen, and even had a baby brother called SAPLING (groan!). In its heyday, there were about 180 people who regularly used the program… In essence, PLANT»> was just a search-and-replace utility, which I reduced to two lines of code in a 1995 cgi-bin version (see previous blog entry on WebPLANT»>). [...]

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