Yahoos kleine Mashup-Revolution - Zombies are just not dead to kill. How often I have seen programming systems that claimed "not to have to be able to program" and instead relied on the much-invoked flowcharts - none of the projects really survived. ProGraph was an early data flow language on the Mac with graphical representation and at least really usable as a complete language - but of course difficult to understand for non-programmers. Novell's AppWare was once again brewed and sold as Mindbrew, but that is also bankrupt. Labview is probably one of the few providers of a comparable solution, which, however, is also used in rather special areas (measurement and control technology, laboratories, etc.), but even there programming knowledge is required. And now all of this as Web 2.0. Cute.
programmierung - 31.7.2006 - 9.2.2007
Slimbox, the ultimate lightweight Lightbox clone - nice JavaScript toy for displaying images in a gallery.
ModWsgi - an Apache module for WSGI applications (WSGI is a python standard for web applications).
Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it - rip off ala Microsoft. That's probably what they call development work and why they think only Microsoft is capable of innovating - funny twisted vocabulary at Microsoft ...
Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast - why grep and awk match faster than Perl or Python.
The truth about working in the IT industry - just like a prostitute.
IronPython and libsecondlife
libsecondlife is a C# reimplementation of the SecondLife protocol. IronPython is Python on .NET. They should be able to be used together. They can be. However, IronPython is not Python - most of the standard library is missing (although many of the pure-Python modules would certainly work). External libraries are also handled differently. The following makes one happy:
import clr
clr.AddReferenceToFile("libsecondlife.dll")
import libsecondlife
With this, I got everything loaded together. Maybe a start for me to play around with it.
.NET Languages - Programming languages that work under .NET (if it has to be .NET, you can at least take a human-worthy programming language)
M is for monkey - Mono on Maemo. That would be exciting - with the efforts to also support the Mono GUI classes on Linux and the connection with libSL, you could possibly get Sleek (Text-Mode SL client) to run. And thus have a mobile chat solution for SL.
Polyglot - yet another person with too much time. A Hello World program that can be translated into various languages without modification (and also represents a directly executable .com version). Freaks. All freaks.
Think Gloves!
This will now be my go-to for overly complicated solutions in the future. Comes from the DailyWTF Archive.
Entity Crisis: Unity3D Evaluated. Wow. - I'll definitely have to check this out soon.
What really happened on Mars? -- Authoritative Account - exciting report about a software bug in the Mars Pathfinder and how it was found and handled.
SLeek - alternative mini-client (no graphical display etc, only chat/IM and basic avatar function) for SecondLife. Could become interesting if you could implement a chat relay with it - although it's C# ...
[Google Pagerank Algorithm](http://kraeutler.net/vincent/essays/google page rank in python) - in Python. Interesting.
ajp-wsgi - an implementation of WSGI (the abstract Python server protocol) based on AJP (the Java Server Protocol), written entirely in C and executing Python applications via embedded Python interpreters. Could be very interesting for efficient operation of Python applications.
LibSecondLife-Java - a port of the SL protocols to Java (so far there was only the libsecondlife story written in C#). And not everyone has or wants to install Mono ...
Object Debugger - new toy for the best Scheme system in the world: DrScheme. This time a very interesting debugging tool for object-oriented programs, which expands the already impressive toolbox.
Retired from security@php.net - "The reasons for this are many, but the most important one is that I have realised that any attempt to improve the security of PHP from the inside is futile".
You cannot rely on JavaScript being available. Period. - always offer fallbacks. Anything else is just uncool and lame.
3D Game Programming All in One with CDROM (Course Technology PTR Game Development Series): English Books: Kenneth C. Finney - Book about game design with TGE. Be careful, Amazon.
The Official QuArK website - Map editor for games. Can be used with TGE.
Return of the Paper Disk: 256 GByte on A4 Sheet - this works well as long as no one calculates the bits, applies realistic compression rates, and then checks how many points a scanner can reliably read from it and how much remains. But then you would have to turn off your own tech faith in the editorial offices ...
Efficient JavaScript - you should definitely go through it, can't hurt.
Programming in Color - colorful pixels make a program. Insane.
Torque : TGE - interesting engine for networked games. Multiplatform (Windows, Mac and Linux), source code included and low hardware requirements. However, not distributed, networked worlds.
[The Parable of the Two Programmers](http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/Computer_Audience/The Parable of the Two Programmers.html) - that's how it works.
The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy - shot down. Again. Will they ever stop?
The Django Book - progressive Beta-Releases of the Django Book chapters on the web (with information on when the chapters go online).
Six Word Stories about Programming Languages - literary!
Good Math, Bad Math : Pathological Programming: Ignorance is Bliss, or at least control. - ok, and this language is so absurd, one has to go and take a look. Although it reminds me a bit of sick Snobol, in terms of format ...
Good Math, Bad Math : Prime Number Pathology: Fractran - Programming language that consists only of prime numbers. Ouch.
WebSnapr - Thumbnail images for links. Interesting concept.
new snapshot tarballs finally - OpenMCL gets Unicode support.
Ogoglio - 3D worlds in the browser. Sounds interesting, let's observe.
Ralph Griswold died - Snobol and Icon were long my preferred languages for string processing and tools. His Icon Analyst Newsletter was a long-time favorite read. His book on the implementation of Icon is a well-read read on building bytecode interpreters and compilers.
G2Image - Plugin for Tiny-MCE to select images from a Gallery2 installation - should be able to be rebuilt for Django.
Simple image manager/uploader - another image picker, but much simpler. Maybe a better basis (integrate into the upload!)
TinyMCE Javascript Content Editor - GUI editor for HTML textareas with plugin interface
Geonames - maps names of cities, mountains etc. to geographic information (and vice versa). Plus a web service to use this data. The whole thing as a community project with data content under CC license. Very cool.
3D-Scanner aus Webcam und Laser für jedermann - wow, cool!
6502asm.com - 6502 compatible compiler and emulator in javascript - completely crazy. I love it.
The GPL is not a compromise - a point that is missing in the current discussion about GPLv3: the GPL is a community license. It's not about the rights of the producer, the central core is the right of the user. The excitement of Linus and some others is therefore quite amusing: because Linus is a producer here. Producers have always been upset about the GPL. The question is: do users need protection against DRM? Yes, otherwise the GPL will only be waste paper in the DRM-infested future that threatens us.
Strongtalk: A High-Performance Open Source Smalltalk With An Optional Type System - now completely open source, including the VM (which provided essential impulses for the Java Hotspot technology).
KETTLE - Data warehousing with open source. Here is a data transformer with GUI job editor and batch job executor. Sounds quite nice.
Basic mit Come From - written in Lisp. Insane.
DM's Esoteric Programming Languages - Piet Samples - Sample programs in the Piet programming language, whose source code looks like Mondrian paintings. Insane.
O'Reilly's list of the most popular programming languages - absurd, how a publisher, who has long been facing competition in its core area from others (e.g. apress and manning), still acts as if they could provide some definitions. And not just trying to boost their own sales and define the market by selecting the topics published.
Introducing Django 0.95 - new Django release out. Magic removed.
New in JavaScript 1.7 - exciting to see what's being added to JavaScript. Given the slow pace of IE's development, we can expect to use these features in 2010 - or earlier, if Microsoft's browser embarrassment is simply pulled from the market ...