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I certainly like the look of CoffeeScript. Not quite sure what it’s for yet. Is it just a nicer looking syntactic sugar on top of javascript? Or are there some powerful abstractions that simplify doing larger scale js work? (a la jQuery?)
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XHP actually looks pretty cool. On the surface, it’s just a cleaned up PHP. But the cleaning up (putting XML into the language) actually gives it some of the character I was hoping for in GeekWeaver.
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The lessons of Mozilla Ubiquity
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Giles Bowkett has a profound and entertaining blog-post, starting with some thought-provoking criticism of Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham; and then moving on to other questions of business models for blogging programmers.
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Great exegesis of Ward Cunningham’s maxim.
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Another thing that I saw recently that looks pretty interesting : Fossil, a kind of source-control system with built in web-server and trac-like wiki and bug-tracking, all in a single executable file. I’ve no time to play with this at the moment, but it looks very cute.
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Wow! Dan Bricklin has still got it. This is a really nice twist on the mobile notepad / todo list app. The UI looks brilliantly well thought through.
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Joel on his “search engine for programmers”.