Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
David Wragg: : Pachuco is a recreational project I've been working on for a while. It's a self-hosting compiler for a dialect of the Lisp programming language (and it also has a lot in common with Scheme). It generates i386...
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Although this robot is still under development, it is able to stand on it's own. The maker has posted several videos and the source code so you can get started on making your own. The system features a kalman filter to acquire data from the IMU and a PID controller to control the motors. The robot is actually able to stand by itself indefinitely, but it's not completely stable, either because of my...
ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Managed runtimes and self-describing code has changed Microsoft's approach to source code protection. We have access to more Microsoft source code than ever before, and that is likely to remain the case so long as Microsoft emphasizes .NET as its platform of the future.
O'Reilly ONLamp Blog (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
A project was recently removed from Codeplex because it was not offering the source code. The project, Sandcastle, apparently violated Microsoft’s “Open Source policy”. Thus, Microsoft removed the project. That’s cool and all, but that is not what is really of note....
Microweb News (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
The striking open source-initiative of RealNetworks was announced this summer already. This week is the final so far. According to Real, there is under developers sore many interest for the source code. Since the first notifications self already two thousand developers presented for Helix, [...]
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
A young Whitianga nerd with no formal computer training has confessed to cyber crime which has surprised international investigators with its sophistication. Owen Thor Walker, who taught himself computer programming and encryption,...
CURRY.COM (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
#739 Daily Source Code for Wednesday March 26th 2008 The hump ay edition of the charlie is once again streamed live through Live365 with a feedback loop on Twitter. Today’s show focuses on more babies being illegally (?) tested for DNA and other shenanigans. Of course the music speaks for it’s self. Music in this episode: Spencer Davis [...]
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
Io, the language: Io is a dynamic prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk[1] (all values are objects), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), Lisp (code is a runtime inspectable...
