A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog

  • Shhhh …

    I have a confession … I re-installed the Google App. Engine dev, environment on my machine. I popped open the Mind Traffic Control codebase and looked into it. I was a bit overwhelmed at the clunkiness of some of the code (I’ve become a more concise Python programmer since then) but I realised I could…

  • Google's "Future of Javascript"

    So Google blame Javascript’s weaknesses for Apple’s success with iOS and its app ecosystem, and want to replace JS with their own alternative. Obviously I think this is the most wrong-headed thing I’ve heard in a while, and a worrying sign of idiocy within Google. I’m not particularly concerned about the future of Javascript which…

  • Trello

    Trello looks very interesting.

  • Lunascript looks very interesting.

  • Going completely against the spirit of what I said yesterday, Web2py looks interesting.

  • Been browsing some interesting discussion over at Quora on how they built their site. It’s basically Python and Pylons. But this is cool. They don’t use a templating language. Here’s developer Charlie Cheever : What “templating” means to most people is a way of having the developer write out HTML basically the way that you…

  • Why Programming Languages?

  • Back writing more Prolog and getting into Definite Clause Grammars. Having a parser generator built into the language is sweet. 🙂

  • How could I have missed this guy commenting on Oli’s Semantic Programming? Dunno … but I did.

  • Funny : Analogue literals in C++.

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