A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog
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At Aharon’s prompting I had a play with node.js over the weekend. It is very good. I can see why it’s “the next BIG thing”. (See the nice starter tutorial with a very impressive minimal twitter reader.) Trying to think of something fun to do with node.js now. Also, what with getting into Urbi, “events”…
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Resolver Systems have a new “cloud-based” pythonic spreadsheet called “Project Dirigible“
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Urbi is a great, parallel, event driven language for programming robots.Watch the tutorial video. Absolutely packed with interesting control structures to handle the implicit parallelism and event-driven nature of the language. Several important ideas : free subsumption architecture (you actually run many different programs in parallel, each dealing with certain motors and sensors, but interacting…
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An idea for an Android GUI designer. Interesting to see the state of the art here. It’s an improvement on XML … but still, not as far forward as you’d hope.
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Amazing, this genre of Xtra Normal tech. conversations. Here’s a strangely hilarious, profanity filled discourse on NoSQL. Update : Here it is on YouTube.
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Sweet! Emacs on a touch-screen.
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Zounds! Pharo is a smalltalk that runs on iOS and has a wiki-app.
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Clay Language
I like the look of the Clay programming language. C with variants.
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Looks like Staticmatic is Rubyland’s solution to the problem that inspired GeekWeaver.
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There may be something in Zed’s analysis of the decline in contributions to free-software projects. Food for thought. (Of course … people could just be excitedly writing iPhone apps.)
Got any book recommendations?