Archive for May, 2005

PLT Blog Watch

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

I’ve just become aware that a lot of the PLT crew are keeping blogs. Worth checking out if Lambda the Ultimate doesn’t provide you with enough daily programming language theory are:

Jacob’s blog is particularly interesting to me for two reasons:

  • He’s talking a bit about commercial applications of PLT Scheme, something that we’re trying to do at Untyped
  • He’s got a great paper showing how a pile of programming language theory can be applied to solve a problem way better than anyone else has solved it before, which is something we’re really into!

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How Did They Do That?

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Xyle looks like a nifty tool for working out how a CSS design was created. It only works on Safari, so for most people the Web Developer plugin for Firefox will be more useful. Xyle does have a few features that WD doesn’t, so if you have Safari and the $15 I’d say it’s worth it.

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Dashboard: A Great Move, Even Though Apple Got It Wrong

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

One of the highly talked about features in Tiger is the Dashboard. Basically it is a platform for little widgets coded in Javascript and CSS; things like calculators and email notifiers. At least that’s how Apple present Dashboard, and they’ve got it wrong.

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