Ok, so it’s not exactly an elevator, but it definitely looks more fun to ride wouldn’t you agree?
TechEBlog
Ambrai Smalltalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk language and development environment for Mac OS X.
Finally released as a commercial product. Congratulations. It is $149 USD for a commercial licence. Evaluation is time limited. Just starting to play. It is certainly pretty.
Understanding hypermedia as the engine of application state
The constraint with the most mystical reverence is the fourth one. But, really, it’s not that hard to understand. It’s just an extra level of abstraction above traditional message passing architecture. Here’s an attempt to explain based on my current understanding.
Stu says stuff
Lustr is a Ruby DSL for GUI apps. Write a Lustr GUI once, and you can run it with Ruby controllers on the desktop (using wxRuby or JRuby/Swing) and run a code generator to convert the UI to Flex/MXML or XUL, to tie into your AS/JS controllers.
RubyForge — more on the luster website
FORMATTING TEXT FOR READABILITY
In another coincidence, I recently came across a very cool paper, Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting: A New Method to Enhance Online Reading. We programmers spend an awful lot of time talking about indenting source code: how to do it, why to do it, tools for doing it, and so on. Languages such as Python require a particular sort of indentation. Languages such Scheme and Common Lisp depend greatly on indentation; the programming community has developed standards that nearly everyone follows and, by doing so, programmers can understand code whose preponderance of parentheses would otherwise blind them.
But the Walker paper is the first time I have ever read about applying this idea to text.
Knowing and Doing — Interesting idea.
Aerial Photographs of Mexico City (English)
This are a few of the pictures that I have taken while working as a Helicopter Pilot over Mexico City. Recent Mexico City Stock Aerial Photography. For Helicopter Rental In Mexico City, I can help.
I linked to these a long time ago on my other blog… definitely worth mentioning again. Wonderful photos, I want to see some of this in person.
