Automated News Portal: Netzeitung Loses Editorial Team - what happens now if the quality of the compilations and content by the news gathering algorithms is suddenly better than the previously editorially compiled content? Just throwing this out there. (Yes, yes, I'll be quiet now. But it would be funny.)
Linkblog - 14.10.2009 - 8.11.2009
Eva Redselig - cute.
avodonosov's abcl-idea - as I'm currently playing around with IntelliJ (and the plugins for Scala and Clojure for it), there's also a plugin for integrating Common Lisp into Idea. Even with the possibility of writing extensions for Idea in Common Lisp (and having your own REPL for it). I should definitely try it out.
Cluster SSH - Cluster Admin Via SSH - another interesting tool, allows commands to run in parallel via ssh on multiple machines. Good for administering many similar machines where essentially the same command should run.
FAI - Fully Automatic Installation - since we have a lot of chroots and virtual machines at the company, maybe quite interesting.
flogr - Fotoblogging with Flickr as the backend for the images. Looks quite interesting.
iWebKit - Make a quality iPhone Website or Webapp - yet another iPhone web framework.
JQTouch — jQuery plugin for mobile web development - for future use, iUI is a bit rough and native applications demand the toll of 79 euros per year for the Developer program. For the few things I do, web applications are probably often sufficient.
Lazy Pythonista: Diving into Unladen Swallow's Optimizations - Unladen Swallow is the Python variant for LLVM. It's looking more and more interesting.
OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs - export & import to Google Docs, Zoho, WebDAV - sounds cool. With a suitable application on the iPhone, you can then quickly view documents that you normally edit at home in a desktop application.
Electric Alchemy: Cracking Passwords in the Cloud: Breaking PGP on EC2 with EDPR - interesting article about brute-force cracking of passwords using dynamic instances on Amazon EC2. Particularly interesting is the second part with the analysis of the costs of this solution depending on password complexity and length. 8-character passwords (even with special characters and numbers) are definitely no longer up-to-date for really sensitive data.
Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Search - interesting project: Haystack. An extension of Django to add full-text search with an interface very similar to the normal Django database interface.
Parsing JSON in Arc - nothing world-shattering new, just parser combinators, but you don't see Arc code very often, the Lisp dialect by Paul Graham.
Why do we have an IMG element? - Mark Pilgrim buddelt in HTML-Geschichte.
Thousands of Blue Letters from the Youth Welfare Office - "Doctors and youth welfare offices in NRW are now checking which children do not attend voluntary check-ups. Several thousand reminder letters have already been sent. Those who do not respond may expect a visit from the youth welfare office." - sounds all incredibly voluntary.
alandipert's step - a Pico-Framework for website tinkering with Scala. Looks quite funny for simple REST web services in Scala.
GRDIII vs. GRDII vs. GRD - B&W side by side photos - interesting for pixel peepers, how contrast, sharpening, and noise reduction have different effects on the image in the three GRD models.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Langenfeld - until January 24th. I should add this to my to-do list.
hlship's cascade - and a somewhat more expanded framework with some nice features but still very compact code.
macourtney's Conjure - oh dear, yet another framework for Clojure. This time one that is similar to Rails. Nice detail: comes with H2 as a pre-configured and included database - H2 is a database in Java, similar to SQLite, small, fast, lean. But can also use other databases.
weavejester's compojure - Pico web framework for Clojure. Comparable to Step for Scala or web.py for Python. Just the absolutely minimal necessary to put together a small web application.
RWPluginMarkup - Markdown plugin for RapidWeaver.
Bill Clementson's Blog: Clojure could be to Concurrency-Oriented Programming what Java was to OOP - interesting comparison between Erlang and Clojure regarding multithreading.
(Field) - found at Schockwellenreiter and wow, this thing looks very interesting. Processing on steroids? In any case, much more open when it comes to programming languages. I definitely have to take a closer look, because simple graphical interfaces like Processing are what I'm missing for Processing or Abcl, for example.
Underscore.js - functional utilities for JavaScript.
UNITY: Game Development Tool - is now free as in free beer.
Scientists discover gene that 'cancer-proofs' rodent's cells - presumably p16 not only makes you safe from cancer, but also causes hair loss and ugly long front teeth ...
[Python-Dev] Reworking the GIL - sounds good! No, the GIL will not be removed - but the scheduling will be revised and thus some of the threading problems under Python could be fixed.
Apple cancels ZFS project - why Apple dropped ZFS.
Exploring the Mandelbrot set with your GPU - quite a cool Clojure library that enables GPU usage with Clojure.
The Self Handbook - since Self has now been revived, this is certainly interesting. It is also historically interesting, as Self more or less invented prototype-based OO systems and is still highly modern in many respects.
Klaus Staeck on the danger of "blogorrhea" - and where, pray tell, is the quality journalism in times of regional dominance of the Springer press in areas above 90%? I can't find even a whiff of quality in any product from the house. Should the few other editorial teams be expected to do it all? Seems more than doubtful when I consider that most alternatives to the Springer press are either just as terribly bad, or write from a rather conservative worldview. Either you trust the media consumers with media competence - then you must accept blogs at least as much as the Springer press - or you don't trust them with media competence. Then you must also consistently argue against the Blödzeitung and similar waste of paper. Bad journalism doesn't suddenly become better just because you print it. And good journalism remains good, even if it has never been through a rotary press.
bamboo-language - "Bamboo is intended to provide an implementation of Smalltalk and Strongtalk for both the iPhone and Mac OS X, leveraging Apple's Objective-C runtime, LLVM, and Clang.". There is not much content there yet, so it should rather be considered a statement of intent.
DeliciousSafari - sync Safari bookmarks with delicious. Alternative to bookmark sync via MobileMe? There are also iPhone apps for Delicious. And calendar, contacts, etc. can also be done as push sync via Google.
Enterprise scala actors: introducing the Akka framework - sounds a bit like OTP (the server platform for Erlang) for Scala. Could be very interesting, let's see.
Mozilla Labs Raindrop - reminds me somehow of Radio Userland (not just because of the desktop web server, but also because of the objective).
pier - anyone who wants to play around with Seaside and applications for it on the Mac, here is a project that has built a Mac application around a Squeak with Seaside and a CMS. It makes quite an interesting impression (and yes, today is once again dig-into-google-code-projects day ...)
Snow project - a GUI library for abcl (armed bear common lisp) based on Swing.
xmlisp - and yet another MCL descendant (or perhaps rather a CCL descendant). So a Common Lisp on Mac, this one with specific extensions for 2D and 3D graphics and game programming. Reminds a bit of Processing at first glance.
MCL - the old Digitool MCL (originally Apple's Macintosh Common Lisp and before that Coral Common Lisp I think) lives on not only in Clozure Common Lisp, but also as a direct descendant of the formerly commercial package. At least interesting for Lisp nostalgics. Unfortunately only runnable with Rosetta, not direct Intel code. But maybe that will come yet?
Panasonic Leica 45mm F2.8 Macro OIS Lens Review - not exactly cheap. The specs read quite nicely.
Machinarium - super cute Flash game demo.
The Wikipedia is irrelevant - about the problems with the deletion procedure especially in the German corner of Wikipedia.
rosado's clj-processing - how to marry Processing and Clojure. With this, you should actually be able to rebuild the Processing GUI on the Mac so that Clojure is used instead of Java. Perhaps not entirely uninteresting to play around with.
ScalaCL: Reap OpenCL’s benefits without learning its syntax (Scala DSL for transparently parallel computations) - and anyone who wants to play around with OpenCL will find what they're looking for here, without having to delve into the hardware depths.
Spde - and then there's also a combination of Scala and Processing. Also quite interesting to play around with.
macwidgets - As I'm currently playing with Scala, Clojure, Jython and other JVM-based languages, these Java widgets are quite interesting as they bring a bit of Mac look (unfortunately not necessarily feel) to the rather visually sparse Swing.
rlwrap - nice little tool that brings readline support to any command line application. With this, you can also edit lines in Clojure in a somewhat reasonable way (though it can of course only support line editing, not editing of logically related expressions).
Living with the Hopeless: Wallraff's New Undercover Mission - I just think the guy is great. Sure, sometimes polemical - but the others do the same. And unlike some quiet ones, he names names.
toolmantim's bananajour - funny idea, simple way to announce git repositories in local networks via Bonjour. For networks where several programmers sit, a fine thing, as you can quickly find out who is currently hacking on what and what state the repositories are in.