The most intriguing part of this Popular Science article on the creation of the iPad app "The Elements" is the all-too-brief mention of the creation of a higher-level Mathematica program to generate the pages:
more ...In about 7 of the precious 60 available days, I was able to create from scratch …
In certain circles, whatever interesting things there were in Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 unveiling today were overshadowed by some new language in the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement:
more ...3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call …
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"Midori" is an operating system project being incubated at Microsoft. A while ago, SD Times acquired some internal specs on Midori, and published this series of articles. Now, in a follow-up article, we talk about how it appears that Midori does or does not fit with Microsoft technologies beginning to …
more ...Apple will be the market leader in slate form-factor computers in, oh, another day or two. There are already more applications written specifically for the iPad than have been written specifically for the Tablet PC in 8 years -- by at least one order of magnitude.
Although I'm dubious about the …
more ...This video shows "Prefab": a research tool that screen scrapes applications at the pixel level, allows the UI to be enhanced (changing cursor or mouse behavior, for instance), and then routes the input to the enhanced UI back to the original. The performance is impressively snappy. It's not clear how …
more ...My column for the 4/1 issue of SD Times describes Profit: A Highly Concurrent Programming Language.
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