I had a little time to test out SlideRocket yesterday, not having high expectations already having tried out other presentation web apps such as Google’s one. However Sliderocket is really cool. It’s implemented with Adobe’s Flex (which I think is flash on the client side and some server-side components). It eats up quite some CPUContinue reading “SlideRocket is awesome!”
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Links for 2008–03–22
Today’s interesting links: Google Translate API [Google Operating System] Travelling Salesman Problem [xkcd.com] Amazon’s Newest Web Service: Shipping Center APIs [ReadWriteWeb] Would You Pay An Extra $100 For An All-You-Can-Listen-To iPod [TechCrunch] Connecting Your Nokia Calendar to Google Calendar [GigaOM] Code Generation by Model Transformation [Transformations and Abstractions] Apple evaluating “all you can eat” iTunesContinue reading “Links for 2008–03–22”
Centralwings
In May, Justyna and I would fly out to Gdansk, Poland to visit her family. We would fly with Centralwings. Justyna flew with Centralwings before and her flight was canceled and flew a few days later. Now it turns out that centralwings has huge debts and is closing down lines left and right. In fact,Continue reading “Centralwings”
First Paper Accepted
This morning we got an e-mail saying that our paper entitled “Code Generation by Model Transformation. A Case Study” has been accepted to the International Conference on Model Transformation ’08. Which means that the first paper I co-wrote will be published! The paper is about the implementation of WebDSL and the two dimensions of modularityContinue reading “First Paper Accepted”
Superlanguages
Imagine a language that can be both generic and domain specific. A language that is extensible is every way imaginable. You can define your own syntax. You can extend the type system. It would be a kind of, a kind of… superlanguage! In short this is what XMF is. And yes, as I typed thatContinue reading “Superlanguages”
Links for 2008–03–15
Today’s interesting links: Banshee Release [Miguel de Icaza] MonoDevelop 1.0 has been Released [Miguel de Icaza] MonoDevelop 1.0 has been Released [Mono Project News] And Nerds Became Kings: Yahoo! to Announce Semantic Web Support [ReadWriteWeb] Google Docs to Add a Menu and Print Layout [Google Operating System] Guy Kawasaki Formally Launches Alltop. Wow, It’s Bad.Continue reading “Links for 2008–03–15”
Sittin’ on the CouchDB
For the past few days I’ve been dabbling with CouchDB. Trying to figure out what it can do and how it’s different than traditional relational databases. According to the site: CouchDB is designed for document-oriented applications. A typical real-world document oriented activity, if it weren’t computerized, would consist mostly of physical paper documents. These documentsContinue reading “Sittin’ on the CouchDB”
Links for 2008–03–09
Today’s interesting links: ‘Odd Couple’ keynote engages audience at MIX08 [Presentation Zen] SXSW: Lessons Learned at 37 Signals [ReadWriteWeb]
Some more CouchDB Links
I intend to play with CouchDB a bit more later today, for now some links I collected over the past few days: Programming CouchDB with Javascript, a nice tutorial about how to build a simple todo list with only CouchDB and Javascript. Damien Katz’ CouchDB Project presentation, especially slide 15 was helpful to me. CouchDBContinue reading “Some more CouchDB Links”
Links for 2008–03–08
Today’s interesting links: 03/7/08 PHD comic: ‘Tales from the road — Wisconsin’ [PHD Comics] Applied Metamodelling: A Foundation for Language Driven Development [Lambda the Ultimate — Programming Languages Weblog] ★ iPhone Enterprise and SDK: First Impressions and Questions [Daring Fireball] iPhone 2.0: Enterprise Ready. Developer Ready. [TechCrunch] The iPhone Gets Serious: A Summary of Today’s Announcements [ReadWriteWeb]
