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November 5 2004 (aa)
Yahoo! pipes
Yahoo! pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant. Difficult to explain, so try it out. [via]
March 2 2007 (aa)
What is the point of macros? explains why.
March 1 2007 (aa)
Mono 1.2.3 has been released. What is Mono? From its home page:
The Mono Project is an open development initiative sponsored by Novell to develop an open source, UNIX version of the Microsoft .NET development platform. Its objective is to enable UNIX developers to build and deploy cross-platform .NET Applications. The project implements various technologies developed by Microsoft that have now been submitted to the ECMA for standardization.
More info at its home page. [via]
February 28 2007 (aa)
Babar K. Zafar provides a list of classic texts in computer science. [via]
February 28 2007 (aa)
Stefan Tilkov's 10 principles of SOA. [via]
January 16 2007 (aa)
D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. See the slashdot posting for more info. [via]
January 16 2007 (aa)
Locomotive is a simple tool to help you develop Ruby on Rails applications on Mac OS X. [via]
January 16 2007 (aa)
JSEclipse from Adobe is a new Eclipse plugin for JavaScript develpment. [via]
January 16 2007 (aa)
IONA announces Celtix Enterprise, and JBoss announces JBoss ESB 4.0 (pdf) and JBoss Application Server 5 Beta 1. ESB [from Wikipedia] refers to a software architecture construct, implemented by technologies found in a category of middleware infrastructure products usually based on standards, that provides foundational services for more complex architectures via an event-driven and standards-based messaging engine, or the bus (see Top 10 ESB Myths, Enterprise Service Bus: Yet Another Paradigm Shift or Better Orchestration of Old Technologies and ESB: Paradigm Shift or Better Orchestration of Old Technologies). [via,via]
December 14 2006 (aa)
Steel Bank Common Lisp, an open source compiler and runtime system for ANSI Common Lisp, now has a 1.0 release. It provides an interactive environment including an integrated native compiler, a debugger, and many extensions. Support for many platforms, including Linux, Darwin (Mac OS X), and FreeBSD. A Windows version is in progress. See also Nikodemus Siivola's SBCL perspective. [via]
December 3 2006 (aa)
Werner Vogels on Working Backwards.
November 10 2006 (aa)
I've refered to AMQP earlier. The Nov/Dec 2006 Internet Computing "Toward Integration" column provides an overview of AMQP (pdf). [via]
November 10 2006 (aa)
Snake Oil-oriented Architecture. [via]
November 10 2006 (aa)
LLUP allows you to subscribe to particular types of content (on criteria such as geographic area of interest or other simple keywords) and then for content producers to notify your account when something of interest has been made available. [via]
November 10 2006 (aa)
Windows Communication Foundation is released on MSDN. Codenamed Indigo, this software will be the key framework for distributed computing on the Microsoft plaftform. It will be shipped with Vista. See also the .NET Framework 3.0 Community. The Pluralsight blogs are another nice source for Microsoft and .Net information. [via]
Update: More on this topic.
November 8 2006 (aa)
The November issue of IEEE DS online is now avilable:
- Spoon: Compile-time Annotation Processing for Middleware
- Intelligent Transportation and Pervasive Computing
- DRP: An Efficient Directional Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- Flexible Algorithms: Overview of a Beginners' Course
- A Battery-Operated Omnidirectional Robot, A Self-Contained Wireless Memory Chip, ...
- Works in Progress: Intelligent Transportation Systems
- News: Grid Computing Gets Small
- Book review of "Grid Computing: Software Environments and Tools" by Jose C. Cunha and Omer F. Rana, eds.
- Book review of "Payment Technologies for E-Commerce" by Weidong Kou, ed.
November 7 2006 (aa)
A new issue of IEEE Transaction on mobile computing is out. A few interesting papers:
- Mobile Device Security Using Transient Authentication, Anthony J. Nicholson, Mark D. Corner, and Brian D. Noble,
- Provably Secure On-Demand Source Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Gergely Acs, Levente Buttyan, and Istvan Vajda.
November 7 2006 (aa)
Cusp is a lisp plugin for Eclipse. From home page:
Cusp is a development environment for Lisp built on top of the Eclipse platform. It runs SBCL and hooks into the Swank half of Slime. It provides a repl, project manager, an outline of your code for simple navigation, code editor, syntax highlighting, auto-indetation, parenthesis matching, auto-completion, and more.
Free of charge and free of warranty. [via]
November 7 2006 (aa)
Kamaelia is a network applications toolkit for components in a networked environment. From the home page:
A framework providing the nuts and bolts for building components. A library of components built using that framework. Components are implemented at the lowest level as python generators, and communicate by message passing. Components are composed into systems in a manner similar to Unix pipelines, but with some twists that are relevent to modern computer systems rather than just file-like systems.
It is a Python platform. [via]
October 12 2006 (aa)
