Archive 22. March 2007
Backhoe - Editing Second Life Terrain Files on a Mac. I could have used this before the last sim...
Gymnasium bans Harry Potter - To avoid offending religious feelings, a Harry Potter novel will no longer be taught at a Chemnitz high school at the request of parents. - Are we in America now, or why do religious fanatics suddenly have a say? I mean, if they are removed because of their poor style, because they are simply bad - ok. But because of offending religious feelings? What nonsense is this?
"Koran ruling": Outrage over Frankfurt judge - The Frankfurt judge rejected this, decided that there was no undue hardship. The Koran provides for a right to chastise. - since when does any religious pamphlet take precedence over criminal law?
Lift Web Framework - for Scala. Inspired by ideas from Seaside, Rails, Django, and Erlyweb. Sounds at least good.
Maya -> Second Life : Beta version - similar to prim.blender, but based on Maya (commercial software, expensive).
The Scala Programming Language - sounds interesting. Not that we urgently need another programming language, but this one has some interesting approaches and the really smooth integration into Java and .NET worlds has a real advantage: the availability of many libraries. However, whether the functional character of Scala will survive when combined with various Java classes?