Archive 12. January 2011

Welcome to WuWei. Interesting Common Lisp library that makes it possible to program Ajax user interfaces purely in Common Lisp, without having to deal with the implementation in JavaScript. Unfortunately, it is not for my preferred JS library jQuery, but for Prototype and Scriptaculous.

Bizarre sea slug is half plant, half animal. Nature just keeps building the strangest creatures.

Mozilla Labs » skywriter. And this one just as a reminder that web-based code editors are not really something entirely new.

Life at Eclipse » Blog Archive » Introducing Orion. A browser-based IDE based on Eclipse ideas (but newly implemented, so not just Java applets, but cleanly based on HTML5 and JavaScript). Could be quite interesting - of course, there are the usual naysayers, and of course the web is not necessarily the ideal platform for an IDE. But the web browser is everywhere and access is relatively easy from anywhere. So as an additional option to supplement a normal IDE, it can certainly make sense (e.g. for working on the go via an iPad).

Please forget. Best not only the images (which is actually sensible in some cases), but also the - quite stupid and in the case of the "inventor" quite transparent - approach of the Bundesilse and her professor.

Bundestube. This is actually something really useful. Search for content and speakers from Bundestag debates and then watch the recordings.

App der British Library: High Literature for iOS and Android Devices. Those interested in old scripts might be interested in this. I would wish that other museums and libraries would work similarly and make works digitized available.