Algorithmic Botany - in Common Lisp. There you will also find a link to the book with the algorithms. Rendering is done with classic renderers, the Common Lisp code only generates the model description as input.
Archive 17. December 2009
Apparent Software blog » Blog Archive » “Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story - Story why you can use PayPal as a customer (buyer protection is quite useful), but actually not as a merchant. It's just eBay and not a real payment provider ...
BERT and BERT-RPC 1.0 Specification - BERT are Binary Erlang Terms - that is the format that Erlang uses when messages are sent (and internally converted with term to binary).
briancarper.net :: Clojure Reader Macros - very dirty. Wild patching of the Clojure runtime at runtime. But a nice example of how you can easily reach into active Java objects from Clojure. However, you should not use this in production code (so this specific application of building your own reader macros for it).
IronPython - Release: 2.6 - this brings IronPython up to date with the Python 2 series. And allegedly, with a few changes, Django should also run directly on IronPython, although I haven't found any recent posts about this, only ones from 2008. .NET is not my favorite environment, but at work we will probably take a look at it in the long run, simply because integration with the rest of the Windows world should be easier with it than with the standard CPython.
John Graham-Cumming: Data Visualization Disease - "Averages are fun because any fool can calculate them, but pity the fool who averages without thinking.".
mojombo's bert - and here is a library that implements BERT in Ruby.
ProjectPlan - unladen-swallow - Plans for optimizing Python - interesting status about Unladen Swallow, the Python version that builds on LLVM as JIT.
Python Package Index : python-daemon 1.5.2 - because I always need it from time to time and then always have to do it manually: this module helps to turn a Python script into a proper Unix daemon, with correct forking and PID file handling.
samuel's python-bert - and since I'm at it, also BERT in Python.
The Render Engine - Javascript Game Engine - since JavaScript now delivers serious performance with modern browsers like Safari 4 and Chrome (and betas of Firefox), you can do crazy things like writing rendering engines for games in JavaScript.
trotter's bert-clj - and now another BERT implementation in Clojure