Archive 18. October 2011

The impact of Apple’s Siri release: From the former lead iPhone developer of Siri. One of the developers of the app that later became Siri spills the beans. Very interesting, some things are indeed simpler than one might have imagined, others certainly more complicated than it reads in the summary. But I agree with one thing: this will surely give a boost to user interfaces for small devices and consumer computers - I can't imagine that we will forever stick with the rather crude text input interface, with keyboard and all.

Mojolicious - Perl real-time web framework. Looks quite interesting, simply because it gives a rather lean impression and does not require too many Perl peculiarities. Of course, you can also have this with Ruby or Python, microframeworks are not extremely exciting, but there are still people who work with Perl.