Archive 10. November 2011

forger the digital sculpting app for iPad. 3D modeling on the go on the iPad following the clay shaping model. Could be interesting for one or the other who wants to bring it over to Blender to Collada to import it into Second Life, for example.

Technical Overview : Dart : Structured web programming. Of all the current "we're reinventing JavaScript" approaches, this one is almost the most interesting - in principle, it is a classic OO language with a C#-like feature set and mapping to JavaScript. But what is interesting about this system: it is designed from the outset to also develop in a browser environment. But not just within a browser, but as its own IDE, which integrates a runtime browser. And the developer of the project is the Newspeak (previous post) developer, who has already shown very interesting ideas for an IDE. Currently, the Dart Editor is much more oriented towards typical IDEs than the more innovative ideas of the database-based IDE in my opinion.

Newspeak » The Newspeak Programming Language. I think I've mentioned this before, but I'm not really linking it because of the language itself, but because of the IDE presented there - it runs within Squeak, but is largely autonomous and looks very interesting to me. From the first glance, I would say that someone is very inspired by the old Apple Dylan - the hierarchical representation of classes and methods, the linking and the general presentation of the source as a kind of hyperlinked database looks very good.

Radius limited searching with the ORM | Neogeo ramblings with a Python twist. Looking at this, there are really nice features in GeoDjango. Unfortunately, I don't currently have a project where I could use it, so just bookmarked for later. The blog also has other interesting articles about GeoDjango.