HyperCard, Visual Basic and the Importance of the Novice Developer. Interesting article that puts HyperCard in relation to Handheld Developer. And after playing around with Handheld Developer, I would say they are not completely wrong - it is a nice visual environment for creating iOS web applications with integrated hosting with which you can quickly put together a prototype and even get server-side scripting in JavaScript. Ok, it is not quite cheap, but there is a test version to see if you could have fun with it. The applications are actually not so fixed on iOS, because in principle it is just HTML5 and JavaScript - and should therefore also work with Androids (I have not tried that yet).
Archive 9. March 2012
mtravers/heroku-buildpack-cl. And yet another Lisp link - here someone has relied on Heroku's buildpack-capable stack and built a buildpack for Clozure CL, so that you can also put Common Lisp in the cloud through it. Although this then has less similarity with Google App Engine, but rather with something similar to Amazon EC2.
Heroku | Clojure on Heroku. And even more Lisp. With Clojure, you can now also work on Heroku, the cloud platform. This might be an alternative to, for example, Google App Engine (on whose Java incarnation Clojure also runs).
Deep down inside, I'm still a Lisp fan. That's why the ecl-iphone-builder by Terje Norderhaug is very interesting to me - with it, you can compile a version of Embeddable Common Lisp for the iPhone or iPad and then deploy it to an iOS device via Xcode, start a Swank server there, and then connect remotely - and then play around or program with Lisp on the iPhone. Ok, the binding to the OSX APIs is still a bit brittle.