C/Y Adapter fĂĽr 4/3 - and remember this one too, because with the 4/3-to-Micro 4/3 adapter, I could then attach my GH1 to my Contax macro equipment. Much more comfortable than with the Canon at the moment, just because of the live view and the movable screen of the GH1.
Archive 15.6.2009 - 19.7.2009
Lumix Digital Cameras - G Micro System - H-F007014 - oh, so many toys and so little money ... (and a 20/1.7 is also already announced, that would also be very interesting)
Accessories Digital Cameras - Other - DMW-MA2M - ok, I'll probably only be able to afford that by Christmas because of the vacation, but I think it's planned then. On the one hand, I can use my super-nice 90/4 Elmar (which is of course beautifully small), on the other hand, I could get a decently bright lens that is still compatible. With bright 50mm lenses, manual focus is completely sufficient, and on the GH1 (that's the one I have) it would be a great combination. But I'll spend the vacation with the included rubber lens.
One bug to rule them all - JavaScript, cross-platform. Wow.
[pypy-dev] ANN: psyco V2 - Psyco is alive!
Tablet-Netbook from Asus for 450 Euros - doesn't sound so uninteresting. Could you also install OS X on it like the little 901?
django-queue-service - simple Queueing System based on Django. Could be very interesting for projects in the company.
GitX - a graphical interface for git on OS X. I'm actually a Mercurial fan, but for some things git is quite practical (better support for binary data, for example).
Google veröffentlicht freien NX-Server - interestingly, some parts are written in Python!
jQuery Visualize Plugin: Accessible Charts & Graphs from Table Elements using HTML 5 Canvas - ok, das ist definitiv cool.
MetaPython Documentation - hadn't I seen that before? Never mind. Hygienic Compile-Time Macros. For Python.
pudb 0.92.2 - Console debugger for Python. Looks quite nice.
robey's kestrel at master - loosely ordered, reliable message queueing. In Scala. Sounds very interesting, could be useful for some projects, especially since it simply uses the memcache protocol for access, so many clients for various languages are already available. Scala and its ecosystem of projects is becoming increasingly interesting to me.
simple-build-tool - an interesting build tool for Scala that doesn't rely on XML orgies. I find Maven somehow terrifyingly monstrous - and quite honestly, editing XML files I consider an imposition.
SUMMON: visualization prototyping and scripting - maybe for the rider of the shockwave. Data visualization in Python. With OpenGL.
Judgment: DSL-Sharing via WLAN violates competition law - well, that should probably be the end of FON in Germany (at least if the judgment holds). Well, it never really took off here anyway.
MS Lofoten - starting from August 19th, I will be sailing with the ship up and down the entire Norwegian coast!
Coffee reverses Alzheimer's - well, that will surely please the rider of the shockwave ...
Dead Media Beat: CompuServe - CompuServe is done.
Dev Thoughts: Scala: Program like you mean it. - interesting article about some of the nice features of Scala.
Dispatch → Guide - Library for accessing web services (RESTful) from Scala.
In our own interest: Power outage in the data center stopped heise online - well, I would have expected something different from Heise.
iPhone to Get SMS Vulnerability Fix - autsch. autsch. autsch.
NetBeans 6.7 focuses on Maven and Kenai integration - in connection with the Scala support for Netbeans (unfortunately not yet for the current version) it could become more interesting than Eclipse for me in the long run.
agile42 | How to install Agilo for Scrum - might become interesting at work (some people are talking about Scrum). And since Agilo is based on Trac, it would be quite fitting.
CSS Homer, animated - some people just have too much time ...
'Misty caverns' on Enceladus moon - Foundations for possible life on a Saturn moon.
OCaml-mindstorm - control the NXT robot brick from OCaml. Nice!
Olympus E-P1 London Launch & Hands-on - interesting because of the handling comparisons with the Ricoh GRD II and the Sigma DP2.
pygowave-server - for those who don't want to wait for Google to see their Wave in action, someone has simply started a Python server as an open source project.
PyPy Status Blog: JIT progress - and there's also some activity at the PyPy front again.
'Stoned wallabies make crop circles' - and with this headline we're heading into the weekend.
Why are There 60 Minutes in an Hour? - the Sumerians and Babylonians and Egyptians are to blame!
Window damage on Atlantis threatens six month delay to STS-129 - this must be the deepest analysis of a loose screw I have ever seen ...
Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment - relevant for Django, because the developer Simon Willison is one of the Djangonauts and built the whole thing with Django. Great job!
Second edition of Practical Django Projects - because I will need it for the company as well. And it is based on Django 1.1!
Pharo Open Source Smalltalk - a project to make Squeak look a bit more professional. It looks good, and if they go beyond pure aesthetics (and e.g. build bridges to native libraries), this could become very interesting.
scala.xml - how to mangle XML with Scala (quite interesting, Scala can directly embed XML in the source)
Erik Naggum, 1965-2009 RIP - it's strange to read an obituary for a Usenet poster and be touched by it - even if you never met the person yourself, only occasionally exchanged emails or news postings with them, and often shook your head at a thread in which he was involved. He was always uncomfortable. Nevertheless (or perhaps precisely because of that), he often and strongly shaped comp.lang.lisp. And sometimes he provoked thought.
software - xml - s-exp vs XML - and since it fits so well, one of his master postings about markup languages and their comparison to lisp S-Exprs. "If GML was an infant, SGML is the bright youngster far exceeds expectations and made its parents too proud, but XML is the drug-addicted gang member who had committed his first murder before he had sex, which was rape."
Futurebox, lightbox without the JavaScript - I need to check this out, it could be quite fun in my blog. Even if, of course, various browsers without CSS3 support can't do anything with it. So what?
scalala - silly name, but interesting content: Matlab-like math library. In this area, a statically typed language offers advantages, as you won't accidentally put elephants into the orange press.
scouchdb - Scala interface to CouchDB (direct object persistence via JSON).
NIK Complete Collection - now fully compatible with Lightroom 2. I could finally take a closer look, some of the tools would be very interesting for me.
Subdomain-Patent null and void - one of the most ridiculous patents finally gone. This should never have been granted.
New investor saves SCO from liquidation - Zombies!
Olympus E-P1 'Digital Pen' Officially Announced - looks really nice. I'm looking forward to the first tests - and to see what the price will be in Germany.
Olympus E-P1 Hands-on Preview - at least a preview.
httplib2 - a much more complete implementation of an HTTP client in Python. Also supports modern features (i.e., the things that have been developed in the last 10 years ...)
Mal Sondock has passed away - this brings back memories. Wednesday evenings.