Jtalk Smalltalk. No idea why this has slipped past me so far - but a rather complete-looking Smalltalk implementation in JavaScript including an IDE with a class hierarchy browser is quite remarkable, even if it's not the first project of its kind (Clamato would be another, but that seems largely dead).
Archive 13. July 2011
jQuery vs MooTools: Choosing Between Two Great JavaScript Frameworks. I've lost a bit of touch with MooTools, but before I got to know jQuery and its many plugins, it was my preferred JavaScript library. So it's interesting to read how it compares to jQuery (written from the perspective of a MooTooler).
But you have to do something about it! - The Raummaschine. It's definitely worth reading and thinking about. As often said on WDR: spend a quarter of an hour thinking about it. A quarter of an hour. You can manage that. Because I want data protection to provide me with the tools and legal means to control the spread of my data, but not to dictate what I can do with data (indirectly through the massive attempts to regulate services). I want to be able to decide for myself what is published - but I also want to have the option to say "not anymore" and a commitment from providers to meaningful tools. For me, this does not only include "prohibiting" and "regulating" - but rather things like data portability (I want a property right to my data!) and traceable deletion. Because I am indeed interested in services and service providers that work with my data - social networks can be fun and useful.
Google Plus RSS Feeds. Interesting post, not officially from Google, but a nice little app with which you can fetch your stream via RSS. With this and Twitterfeed, you can then push your Google+ posts to Twitter or Facebook.
asuhan / happy. Also not uninteresting: a PHP interpreter and compiler in Python based on the PyPy toolchain. Okay, it's not a showstopper, I don't think I've often had the question "how can I execute PHP code in Python" - but for example, if a site based on Django wants to provide users with PHP as a scripting language, something like this could become quite interesting - PHP is after all one of the best-known scripting languages for the web, but Python with some frameworks is simply much more interesting from a production perspective.
cfbolz / Pyrolog. Had I already seen this? A Prolog interpreter in Python that uses the PyPy toolchain. Could be very interesting if you need a bit of rule logic in your programs but don't necessarily want to use external tools for it.