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Scala the statically typed dynamic language

David Pollak starts making the case for Scala as a statically typed dynamic *language*, with many of the features we enjoy in dynamically typed languages like Ruby and Python.

(tags: scala dynamiclanguages)

31 Dec 2007 del.icio.us comments off

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Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool

Impressive Firefox extension for doing online research. This will be one to follow. Doesn’t look like it supports storage in the cloud, though. Yet.

(tags: firefox research via:aessa)
Twitter is good enough for the enterprise, if not the Enterprise

What he said. “Good enough” being the key point.

(tags: twitter enterprise enterprise2.0)

28 Dec 2007 del.icio.us 1 comment

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Announcing SunSpider 0.9

JavaScript performance benchmark

(tags: javascript performance)

27 Dec 2007 del.icio.us comments off

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Top 2007 Education Apps: Learning 2.0

(tags: elearning edtech web2.0)

23 Dec 2007 del.icio.us comments off

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Anti-Kant Campaign

Is THIS the kind of man you can trust with YOUR perception of reality?

(tags: funny)

22 Dec 2007 del.icio.us comments off

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Interview with Martin Odersky at JavaPolis’07 – Parleys – Parleys.com – a Belgian Java User Group initiative

(tags: scala java podcast interview)
Haltadefinizione

Da Vinci’s The Last Supper online in 16-billion pixels. Nice.

(tags: art)

20 Dec 2007 del.icio.us comments off

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Internet Explorer 6 crashes after you install security update 942615 on a computer that is running Windows XP Service Pack 2

“Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall the operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved.”

(tags: microsoft ie via:billhiggins)
AskEraser

Ask.com is offering a new privacy feature. When enabled, they’ll erase your search activity.

(tags: privacy)

19 Dec 2007 del.icio.us comments off

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Simon Willison commenting on Tim Bray’s “On Closures”

I agree w/ Tim and w/ Simon Willison’s comment about JavaScript, and love this bit: “GWT appears to exist principally to protect Java developers from having to figure out closures”

(tags: java closures javascript)
7th Son: The Podcast Novel Trilogy

(tags: podcast books)

18 Dec 2007 del.icio.us comments off

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Scala Support for NetBeans Screenshot: Syntax Highlighting and Scala Project

NetBeans is poised to become my IDE of choice.

(tags: netbeans scala)
Gartner on the value of social media | esjewett.com

Marvelous. “Social interaction is the way most value is delivered in the modern work environment and predicted that by 2012, the primary role of business networks will be to support social interactions, not routine business transactions.”

(tags: socialsoftware via:monkchips)

14 Dec 2007 del.icio.us comments off

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Big Architecture Up Front – A Case of Premature Scalaculation?

(tags: architecture scalability)
Duelity

On creationism. “Split-screen animation that tells both sides of Earth’s origins”.

(tags: creationism evolution funny video)
Screwing With Nature: Glow-in-the-Dark Cats Could Make For a Unique Home Lighting Solution

Our other, not-so-glowing cats would have a field day!

(tags: science funny)
7 Stages of grief and the coming global shitstorm

Nice work, Tim. So right. I look forward to someone (perhaps Tim himself?) deepening the analysis.

(tags: cgs)
PDFRenderer Home Page

Renders PDF to the screen using Java 2D.

(tags: java pdf opensource)
Programming in Scala

A Scala book! A Scala book!

(tags: scala book)
Adobe Labs – BlazeDS

Adobe’s just released an open source version of their “server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology” for Flex. Flex is looking better and better.

(tags: flex adobe messaging opensource)
flot – Google Code

JavaScript plotting library for jQuery. Nice stuff!

(tags: javascript via:scottmark)

13 Dec 2007 del.icio.us 1 comment