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Dog : A Social Language
Dog seems to be a little language for writing social software. Initial thoughts : Big question is what it compiles to. It’s about time we had a programming language that compiles a single program down to parts that run on both server and clients, in a really easy and transparent way. Building in knowledge of protocols …
Project Schema
This is awesome : Project Schema combines mind-mapping with management of parts of a CAD model.
Command Line In Web Apps
Excellent! Mozilla is releasing a command line library for use in web-apps.
Initializr
This looks pretty good.
O'Reilly Early Release
I didn’t know about the O’Reilly Early Release program. Basically, it seems you can buy a book as it’s still being written, and give feedback while receiving updates and rewrites. Nice idea. I’m tempted to buy some of these.
Programming With A Mind Map
Using a MindMap to store documentation. Actually it sounds like Freemind is much like an outliner, in that you can drive it with the keyboard and collapse / expand etc. I wonder how using this compares to LEO. (Hat-tip Other Michael)
JSON / RSS
Dave Winer is considering an official(?) JSON flavour of RSS. I just want to say here that I like RSS, for what it is, and what it does, and I like JSON to actually work with, because parsing XML is still a faff. So it gets my vote.
Smart Notebooks
An intriguing Kickstarter project. Seems that Smallest Federated Wiki would be a good starting point for this.
Planet Building
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m rather taken with Planet Planet, the old-skool Python based RSS aggregator that outputs flat HTML. I used it to build my wonderful Future Manufacturing river. And I want to use it for more things. So I’ve created a small script to make installing Planet ultra-easy on a …