Hidden in this Concatenative IRC Log from 6.1.2012 you can find something from Slava, the Factor developer, about its (so Factor, not Slava) future - a few bug fixes for 0.95 he still plans, but then for him the project is basically finished. Too bad, because Factor was always interesting to play around with and one of the more exciting language projects, but in recent times it has become somewhat quiet around it. Now I know why. Whether the community has enough power to continue where he stops is rather questionable given the size of the community - yes, a few people are active and also quite more active than him, but Slava was often the driving force (haha) in the development and integration of new concepts and ideas.
programmierung - 30.9.2011 - 14.2.2012
generateDS 2.7b : Python Package Index. A colleague just found this, looks quite interesting - it generates Python class structures from XSD files. Not that something like this is absolutely necessary in Python, but we were just discussing how to generate a Django model from an XSD, this tool could be a starting point.
IdleX - IDLE Extensions for Python. There is actually a project that aims to enhance IDLE and teaches the rather neglected standard IDE of Python a whole lot of new tricks.
Practical Common Lisp - Crawling InterfaceLift with Common Lisp - second try. Interesting run through a simple project in Common Lisp using Quicklisp. It really makes a lot of things easier than if you program raw in CL and manage all the packages and systems by hand. However, you should not necessarily run the example script, as it violates the terms of use of InterfaceLift (and is not really nice to their servers).
arskom/rpclib - GitHub. Since I recently had soaplib, this is the successor to it. The colleagues have probably already gained some experience with it (positive experience).
Laurence Tratt: Fast Enough VMs in Fast Enough Time. Interesting article by the developer of Converge (a language that picks up and combines ideas from Lisp - macros - and Python - indentation for scope and parts of the syntax) about RPython, the base language behind PyPy. This way you also understand a bit more what role RPython plays exactly (namely the implementation language for interpreters that automatically get a JIT).
ladon 0.7.0 : Python Package Index. And this one sounds a bit like my old Toolserver - so a simple way to provide Python code as a service. SOAP is also supported.
suds. Just a SOAP client for Python, but explicitly mentions the important binding styles (RPC/Literal, RPC/Encoded, and Document/Literal).
About — soaplib v2.0.0beta documentation. And another newer SOAP library for Python, also with significantly more activity than SOAPpy.
PySimpleSOAP - Python Simple SOAP Library. Sounds like I want to check this out, as it includes some features missing in SOAPpy (and since SOAPpy is no longer being developed, this is interesting).
Smile and SmileLab Home Page. Hmm, maybe not uninteresting for playing around - data analysis and graphical preparation with AppleScript in a scripting environment. Features look quite interesting (diagrams, XML, TCP, HTTP server and client ...) out.
python4delphi - Embedding Python within a Delphi application. Tutorials allegedly also work with Lazarus and Free Pascal, and probably rudimentary also under OSX. Could be interesting for one of these crazy projects that keep haunting me.
Iñigo Quilez - fractals, computer graphics, mathematics, demoscene and more. Interesting small programs that generate beautiful images and provide some background and mathematical foundations for some of the algorithms. And also a lot of other interesting graphics stuff. Something to browse through for quiet hours and perhaps some inspiration to program one thing or another (where he provides the basics).
FPC New Features 2.6.0 - Lazarus wiki. And further nice changes in FreePascal, especially the new Delphi features will certainly interest one or the other, or also the further expanded ObjectPascal dialect for Cocoa programming under OSX. If now Lazarus switches from Carbon to standard Cocoa and thus also becomes fully 64-bit, it will become really interesting even for normal work with it. In any case, if you don't like Objective-C. Or if you prefer the Delphi-like environment of the XCode environment.
charles leifer | Updates to peewee, including atomic updates, select related and basic transactions. The small ORM for Python is slowly growing up and learning transactions, atomic updates and select related. Very interesting for smaller tools because you can simply save the entire infrastructure of a full Django project and copy the ORM as a single Python file.
Distribunomicon | Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!. Interesting article about distributed processing with Erlang and the pitfalls you can fall into (e.g. the note that remote links can produce an event storm if the network fails over which the remote links go).
Sublime Text. Hmm, just took a look and was quite surprised to realize that this is quite a nice editor. With various others recently, I thought, okay, nicely done, but not really usable features. But the 10000-feed overview for the currently active source, for example, is surprisingly easy to use - you can actually recognize the structure of your own source and quickly find positions in the source again. And the idea of commands via the command palette is also really useful. And Python plugins sound good too, even if I haven't looked at the API and performance in more detail yet. (Yes, yes, I know, I just talked about how much I like PyCharm and now another editor... it's just the eternal search for perfection!)
web2py. As a free book for online reading or for purchase on dead wood or as PDF. Small, compact web framework in Python - if Django is too powerful, you might want to check this out.
Mac App Store - Clozure CL. One of the nicer free Common Lisp implementations is now in Apple's App Store. CCL is essentially the free and portable version of the old Macintosh Common Lisp, with integration into Objective C frameworks. So it's quite interesting to play around with if you like both Lisp and Cocoa.
Clay Programming Language. Another new programming language. This one targets system programming (so the C camp) and has some interesting features. Particularly interesting for me is the implementation of Type Inference and Generic Functions - this is one of the more elegant solutions I've seen in recent times.
Thoughts on Python 3. More detailed than some "Python 3 has changed and I don't like it" articles you can find on the web, this article goes into more concrete details about the current problems with Python 3.
Learn Smalltalk with ProfStef. I've already tried Amber, which is Smalltalk 80 based on JavaScript. Now it comes with a node.js-based web server that implements minimal WebDAV and is at least compatible enough with the language that the author could port the ProfStef tutorial - and I've linked it here. Just try playing with a Smalltalk on the website for 5 minutes.
Open Object Rexx. Just noted here as a software archaeologist that there is now an open source implementation of Object Rexx. For whatever one would want that.
hangout-disco - Renders a WebGL room with avatars for each participant of a Google+ Hangout, with the possibility to play music, etc. - Google Project Hosting. Fun - something like a virtual Hangout world.
Zinc HTTP Components. Interesting project that has set itself the task of providing as complete support as possible for all aspects of the HTTP protocol. Interesting because they start from the protocol definition and not, as in many other cases, the HTTP implementation is only as far as it was necessary for the respective web framework.
I'm a confessed PyPy fan, and with version 1.7, PyPy has done a good job - the memory leaks of version 1.6 seem to be gone, and you can now run long-running processes (like a Tornado web server here in the post) with it. Especially for more complex template engines and situations where you work internally with larger data structures to produce results, it's a real alternative - but remember, PyPy needs more memory for the same work.
GemStone Seaside | About. About Seaside: there is a pretty cool virtual appliance (i.e. pre-chewed virtual disk image) for mounting in VMWare installations with a GemStone/S installation including Seaside and a Squeak as an IDE for development for this system. So if you want to see how the big kids work with Smalltalk, click here to download and try it out.
Python Math | Python for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch - Keep away from the last update, as you can no longer bring in external scripts into the tool, which makes it completely useless. The author promises an editor in an update, but it remains to be seen whether it will be even remotely usable. Of course, this is just one of the nonsensical Apple policies he has implemented - but the way he installs an update and only mentions it in the last line of the update information is really bad. Because if you miss that, you have an currently unusable part on the Pad or Phone.
Welcome to NeuroLab’s documentation! — NeuroLab v0.2.1 documentation. Okay, I don't need it right now (and honestly, I don't know if I will ever need it), but what the heck, I'm just a fan of neural networks. And Python. And therefore, here's a reference to a library that provides a whole range of algorithms from this field for Python.
Technical Overview : Dart : Structured web programming. Of all the current "we're reinventing JavaScript" approaches, this one is almost the most interesting - in principle, it is a classic OO language with a C#-like feature set and mapping to JavaScript. But what is interesting about this system: it is designed from the outset to also develop in a browser environment. But not just within a browser, but as its own IDE, which integrates a runtime browser. And the developer of the project is the Newspeak (previous post) developer, who has already shown very interesting ideas for an IDE. Currently, the Dart Editor is much more oriented towards typical IDEs than the more innovative ideas of the database-based IDE in my opinion.
Newspeak » The Newspeak Programming Language. I think I've mentioned this before, but I'm not really linking it because of the language itself, but because of the IDE presented there - it runs within Squeak, but is largely autonomous and looks very interesting to me. From the first glance, I would say that someone is very inspired by the old Apple Dylan - the hierarchical representation of classes and methods, the linking and the general presentation of the source as a kind of hyperlinked database looks very good.
Radius limited searching with the ORM | Neogeo ramblings with a Python twist. Looking at this, there are really nice features in GeoDjango. Unfortunately, I don't currently have a project where I could use it, so just bookmarked for later. The blog also has other interesting articles about GeoDjango.
Pinax. And once again something I think I already had. But for current reasons, it has come back on my radar, and therefore I will take a closer look at it. Something like a peddler's tray for Django projects with a focus on social networks and community sites. Sounds very interesting - a bit like Drupal with Python and on Django (so rather not finished sites but building blocks and framework for creating them).
Codify – iPad. Hey, looks nice for the iPad - a Lua IDE, where you don't provide the results as your own app, but let them run within the environment instead. Not a bad approach, the old basics were nothing else - and you can play around on the iPad without any additional tools, graphics and multitouch and stuff also work. Maybe exactly the right thing for doodling on the go.
Galileo Computing :: Developing Apps for iPhone and iPad - index. Since I once again have access to an iOS Developer Account, I'll blog about it. A free book to read about iOS development, which also works with the new features in iOS and Xcode (at least with some of the new features). Seen at Schockwellenreiter. Of course, you can also simply buy the book if you want dead trees.
Mellow Morning » Django Facebook 3.2 – Simple image upload and wall posts. Since FB is unfortunately still the only social network with a serious API (sorry, but G+ doesn't have a serious API as long as they only offer a level like RSS-over-JSON and the Diaspora API is unfortunately still internal - but Diaspora is in alpha anyway, so there will certainly be more in the beta), you have to deal with it. And the new features of django-facebook look like they could ease some of the pain (and maybe one or the other interesting toy could become interesting for me).
Mojolicious - Perl real-time web framework. Looks quite interesting, simply because it gives a rather lean impression and does not require too many Perl peculiarities. Of course, you can also have this with Ruby or Python, microframeworks are not extremely exciting, but there are still people who work with Perl.
Python Math | Python for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. Pretty cool, this is a really useful Python on the iPad. No GUI modules or anything - just a slightly enhanced shell and the standard library as well as sympy. numpy, scipy and matplotlib are under consideration. The implementation is surprisingly usable - it's good for small tinkering and you can export the transcript by email and get files via the "Open in ..." functions e.g. from Mail or Dropbox.
Cleaning… – Marco.org. There are still some odd things about iOS 5. Here's the issue with the cache and tmp directories, which are now cleaned up much more aggressively, causing some applications to have to fetch data from the network much more often (or violate Apple's guidelines and store documents in the cache). This mainly affects offline readers, as their content is, by definition, reconstructable and thus belongs in the cache - but it might be removed there, which makes the whole offline reading absurd. Not good.
How to speed up the Android Emulator by up to 400%, Nuxeo Developers Blog. Badly blogged, as we will probably soon play around with apps and the Android simulator is extremely slow - testing with it makes almost no sense, as with Phonegap applications, you could outperform the browser rendering with paper, pencil, and eraser, so slow is the image build-up. With the solution here, you don't have an exact test of an Android device, but at least for the first feeling tests, it should be sufficient, as with Phonegap it is more important that the rendering engine is the same than that the CPU is the same.
SuperCollider » About. This is what is used as a basis under the previous project. SuperCollider has its own programming language, so it can also be used for live coding and similar purposes.
Home // Overtone. I'm always excited about sound makers - this is a tool for interactive sound programming and live coding and instrument building (of course digital), and all of it written in Clojure. Maybe for one or the other a reason to take a closer look at Clojure.
virtualenvwrapper 2.10.1 — virtualenvwrapper v2.10.1 documentation. Hmm, I think I've already seen this, but since I now almost exclusively work with virtualenv, I should take another look - this seems to really simplify things (although it seems to assume that all environments are in a main directory, I would probably have to adjust a bit on my side).
Straight Talk on Event Loops. After his beautiful rant "Node.js is Cancer" Ted Dziuba goes into more detail about what the problem is with pure async-event solutions like node.js. As a programmer of a rather old project in Python - the Toolserver for Python - I can certainly understand this. There are good reasons why I implemented threads integrated into the event loop for parallel processing as needed. This "async is faster and better than threads" is exactly the kind of hype nonsense like "NoSQL is faster and better than SQL" and other pigs that are currently being driven through the village.
dust is a JavaScript template library used in Kanso. Functionally very similar to Django Templates, though with slightly modified syntax.
Kanso Framework. That sounds very interesting - a framework for programming JavaScript CouchApps. So applications that are written in JavaScript and run entirely from a CouchDB installation. The server only needs to provide a CouchDB instance and that's it in terms of requirements - and since CouchDB comes with replication by default, you can easily scale up or implement fault tolerance - simply form a cluster of several CouchDB instances. Equally interesting are replications of the production database to another pot, such as a private developer machine or various other scenarios that are possible with CouchDB. Since the whole thing is based on CommonJS as the language base, JavaScript is not quite as bad as if it were used raw.
StatsModels: Statistics in Python — statsmodels v0.3.0 documentation. Not my focus at the moment, but with this module you can examine numbers for their statistical model.
pandas: powerful Python data analysis toolkit — pandas v0.4.1 documentation. I think I haven't had this before, but it's quite interesting for number crunchers and list comparers: a quite powerful toolkit for analyzing large datasets, especially with handling missing data and aligning data on a common basis. Overall, not entirely uninteresting for a project at work where I frequently deal with larger datasets from external sources.
websites - How do I suppress the address bar in mobile Safari? - Apple - Stack Exchange. Bookmarked because I just want to remember this - it's quite practical for web applications if the silly address bar is not there (at least if you work with Single-Page-Applications that do most of the work on the client)
"Algorithm" is Not a Four-Letter Word. Algorithms and their diversity and why programmers should deal with them (keyword: mental bench press) using the example of algorithms for generating labyrinths.