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Archive 12. July 2011
JQuery-Wysiwym - PushingKarma. Something that could become interesting for me: a Markdown (among others) converter in JavaScript. Can be used to build a live editor for Markdown code. Could this be extended for Restructured Text? Because that is one of the problems I sometimes struggle with, that I have ReST as input for Docbook/XML output, but then no suitable graphical editor.
pdf.js reached its first milestone. And since we're on the topic of JavaScript and PDF: with this project you can display PDF files without a PDF reader - just with HTML5 and JavaScript. Very interesting, if this is further developed, it could make the PDF reader completely unnecessary in many places.
PDFKit — A PDF Generation Library for Node. I think I should take another look at Node.js. And CoffeeScript. This PDF generation looks very interesting and could be quite practical for some projects. However, with such libraries, I always miss the high-level part - the actual layout. When will someone build a TeX engine in JavaScript? Hyphenator already provides very good hyphenation, but what is simply missing is a good layout engine for distributing text on defined pages. And please also with good support for table setting.
manuel/edgelisp. Because I can never keep my fingers off the parentheses - a Common Lisp dialect and its implementation that compiles to JavaScript and makes the Lisp code executable in the browser. It seems quite complete - many other projects only show the rudimentary elements, but here there are already generic functions and macros.
Paver/paver. Sounds interesting, like a mix of SetupTools/DistUtils and Make (or their high-level counterparts Rake/Cake). I might take a look, as it could be quite practical for Python projects - although the standard Python tools are already quite useful.
Clockwork in Hiltrup
Forgot all about taking the photos and that they were still in the camera. Well, nothing special, but I find the old clockwork fascinating (I find any old machinery fascinating).