Big news in the Apple development arena this morning: Apple has relented on the ill-advised license restriction on developing for iPhone / iPad with tools created by 3rd parties. The restrictions were introduced in the Spring, just in time to quash Adobe's launch of a Flash-to-iOS cross-compiler, but caught in the …
more ...The Open Source Analysis of Competing Hypotheses Project
This looks like one of those "one thing well" type of applications: a matrix of hypotheses vs. evidence and the ability to rate the intersection as "Consistent/Inconsistent ...etc..."
Could be useful for keeping a complex collaborative discussion on-track and focused.
more ...8 Reasons I love Ruby - Ignu's House of Software.
Nice post that doesn't dwell on the language, but on the ecosystem.
more ...Ruby Best Practices - Sexp for Rubyists.
Interesting:
Let me show you an example. First, gem install ruby_parser. Then:
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require 'ruby_parser'
require 'pp'
pp RubyParser.new.parse(\<\<-EOF)
def plus_five(n)
n + 5
end
EOF
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require 'ruby_parser'
require 'pp'
pp RubyParser.new.parse(<<-EOF)
def plus_five(n)
n + 5
end …I like Mind Mapping -- basically visual outlining with as many interconnections as you like. I don't love Mind Mapping, but I like it well enough to try out software.
Here are two tools for collaborative Mind Mapping that I'm considering using in upcoming talks:
XMind - Mind Mapping and Storming.
more ...I discuss Microsoft's new LightSwitch development tool in my latest column for SD Times.
more ...The Reactive Extensions for .NET are probably still in the realm of "maybe yes, maybe no," in terms of their overall impact (personally, I like the idea quite a bit), but a number of good tutorials are popping up around the Web. I like this series …
more ...Free Tools for the New Scientific Revolution « Shepherd’s Pi.
Some fun tools from Microsoft for playing with Big Data.
more ...Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com.
Good article on a question that is always of interest in programming language circles. The modern take, apparently, is "“Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.”
The obvious example would be that in …
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