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Archive 16. January 2005
Clark Dalton deceased?
Clark Dalton reportedly died in Salzburg - I confess that in my youth I also read large quantities of Perry Rhodan magazines ... Update: it is true. Walter Ernsting is dead. It's strange how I only associate the writer with his pseudonym and how unfamiliar his real name sounds.
Kallisys | Newton | Einstein Project
The Einstein Project is an emulator for the Apple Newton hardware. While this doesn't make your own Mac any smaller (and thus isn't a replacement for the PDA), you can at least play around with one of the most interesting PDA operating systems. Found in Rainer Joswig's Lispnews.
Lock against Raab: Account blocked, bailiff ordered - that's how you have to deal with Raab
Longhand
Longhand is a nice little formula evaluator. You could also call it a calculator, but it's a program for the desktop computer. Something like a graphical variant of bc - it also supports arbitrarily large numbers. Nice and simple for quick calculations in between.
MonkeyTyping - The PEAK Developers' Center
MonkeyTyping is Phillip J. Eby's approach to optional static typing in Python. The idea looks very interesting. What always fascinates me about Phillip is his ability to look beyond the horizons of the language - just think of his work on generic functions in Python. Python urgently needs more of these kinds of breakthroughs - some discussions around Python show the first signs of language inbreeding (for example, these almost hateful reactions to mentions of Lisp and Lisp features by some Python advocates).
TextWrangler now free as in freeware
When I look at the feature comparison between TextWrangler, which is now freely available, and BBEdit, there's really only one feature I would miss: Shell Sheets. These Shell Sheets are absolutely brilliant - at least when you've worked on old Macs with MPW like I have and gotten used to the workflow. Basically like a shell window in Emacs, except the editor around it is usable.
Otherwise, the only other limitation worth mentioning is not being able to build TextFactories with TextWrangler (though you can run them), everything else I personally consider absolutely dispensable - especially all those HTML tools I've never really used.
It's great that BareBones is finally providing a noteworthy free version of their editor.
Using LaTeX in WordPress » LatexRender as a plugin - yes, it is what you would expect: an integration of LaTeX into WordPress. Weird.