A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog

  • Resolver Systems have a new “cloud-based” pythonic spreadsheet called “Project Dirigible“

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Amazing, this genre of Xtra Normal tech. conversations. Here’s a strangely hilarious, profanity filled discourse on NoSQL. Update : Here it is on YouTube.

  • Sweet! Emacs on a touch-screen.

  • Zounds! Pharo is a smalltalk that runs on iOS and has a wiki-app.

  • Clay Language

    I like the look of the Clay programming language. C with variants.

  • Looks like Staticmatic is Rubyland’s solution to the problem that inspired GeekWeaver.

  • 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.)

  • Import question. Is anyone currently using SdiDesk? Write in the comments if you are.

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