Archive 27. December 2010

hoc - Project Hosting on Google Code. Just blogged about it in case I want to play with Haskell again. HOC is a bridge between Haskell and Objective-C and thus allows access to the OSX frameworks.

emscripten - Project Hosting on Google Code. And this is the tool that brought Python to the browser/server. It converts LLVM bitcode to JavaScript and enables a number of interesting tricks.

Emscripten: Python. Pretty cool, a cross-compilation of the standard Python to JavaScript with the help of Emscripten. And thus a full Python 2.7 (minus many libraries of course) in the browser window.

pyfilesystem - Project Hosting on Google Code. Could be useful if you want to access different types of filesystems from Python using uniform code.

Instagram api - instagram - GitHub. Unfortunately only unofficial, and Instagram has already asked the first service to stop using the unofficial API. Therefore, the use of the API should be approached with great caution. But it would be interesting (just so I don't have to pick up my current images from Tumblr anymore, because they have not been really stable lately). Because with the API I could simply access my collection page of my image feed created with it.

Monads Are Not Metaphors - Code Commit. Definitely one of the better explanations of what a monad is that I have read.

J Home. Because you should sometimes just take a look at other languages that are so different that you don't even get the temptation to compare them with the usual (and hey, an APL offshoot with an ASCII character set is at least worth some attention once a year). You can also consider it as a high-end calculator.

'surface' plot 1 2 o. / 0.2 * i.60