Archive 18. April 2011

Snooping: It's not a crime, it's a feature. The great new photo network Color? It turns on your microphone to have another clue about location based on sounds. Did you expect that a photo-sharing app for the iPhone would eavesdrop as well, or?

Jess, the Rule Engine for the Java Platform. If you ever need a rules engine for Java, Jess is based on the core ideas of CLIPS, which has existed for quite some time now (around the mid-80s), but integrates into the Java world. An alternative would be Hamurabi, a rules engine written in Scala that features an integrated DSL with Scala language tools.

Evolutie test. Evolutionary algorithm in JavaScript with visualization in processing.js - started with a random string, the evolution function is the edit distance to the target string and the evolution is what happens - the visualization shows the spread and the convergence to the entered target string.

Re: Factor: Mail with GUI. Nice to see how a more general approach to GUIs makes the code nice and compact - this whole thing reminds me very much of CLIM in terms of structure.