ScalaCC- June 30, 2008 Formal Language Processing in Scala which links to External DSLs made easy with Scala Parser Combinators that I'd read from here.Although, just to keep it balanced I have noticed Steve Yegge's comments, under "Static Typing's Paper Tigers", on the complexity of Scala's typing (it does have a lot) and it has been pointed out that this does lead to problems with writing IDEs to support it.http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/06/scalacc.html Beef of the Sea- June 22, 2008 Everyone is probably sick of me talking about the Gruen Transfer. So what better what to continue to talk about it than to blog about it. Perhaps the best part of the show is The Pitch especially episode one's selling whale meat (this is the runner up) and making the Democrats electable (the second is best). Who would've thought deconstructing chocolate adverts would be interesting One of the good things is that the show is available for download. There is also some good discussion in the..http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/06/beef-of-sea.html Apple Sprouts- June 17, 2008 AppleInsider has some details on SproutCore. The official web site says, "makes Javascript fun and easy" - and it's just a Ruby gem install away. They also link to some previous talk about Cocoa for Windows.Apple's trojan horse in the runtime wars has been well known for a while.The photo demo looks a lot like the MobileMe Gallery that was presented at WWDC 2008 (SproutCore doesn't seem to work too well under IE 7 and the rotation only works in Safari). Gallery has less functionality than...http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/06/apple-sprouts.html Bad Balmer- June 17, 2008 Eight Years of Wrongness. Lists some of the things believed to have gone wrong with Microsoft in the last 10 years or so. They include: losing the DOJ and EU cases, Vista, XBox, IE, Zune, and Windows Mobile. Linked mainly because they use Fake Steve as a source of analysis.http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/06/bad-balmer.html The Curse of the Floppy Penises- June 13, 2008 A Western floppy penis is more valuable than preventing blindness in an African eye (see neglected diseases). This is part of the story in the video of the launch of "The Health Commons". The video talks about how hundreds of thousands of people go blind from "river blindness". It has very little value associated with it and drug companies focus on more valuable drugs to do with baldness and erectile disfunction. The video goes on to talk about how the network changes things and how there's..http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/06/curse-of-floppy-penises.html Ob. iPhone- June 13, 2008 So I've been trying to find more information from a variety of sources on pricing. The closest to reality that I've been able to find is these leaked details from Optus (via Gizmodo):"The iPhone will only be available on a 24 month contract no outright purchase, with the 8GB model to sell at AUD $220, and the 16GB model at $330, with only the 16GB model in white as Steve Jobs announced at the WWDC keynote.Accessories will only be available through Apple stores Optus will only carry the...http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/06/ob-iphone.html Linked Data, FOAF, and OWL DL- June 11, 2008 So I spent a little time a while ago looking through all the different ways ontologies support linked data. Some of my data I wish to link together is not RDF but documents that define a subject. For example, a protein will have peer reviewed documents that define it. It's not RDF but it is important.The tutorial on linked data has a little bit of information: "In order to make it easier for Linked Data clients to understand the relation between http:dbpedia.orgresourceAlec_Empire,...http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/06/linked-data-foaf-and-owl-dl.html Evolution and SUVs- June 10, 2008 Two things that have I've been interested in before: SUVs and evolution.The first mirrors what is happening in Australia too where small cars are winning over larger ones and Falcon sales have dropped by half. The F150 isn't really that popular here.The observation that bacteria have evolved to process other nutrients is interesting. But the related articles tend to be a bit more forceful: such as the Bible's many inaccuracies, the many occurrences of homosexuality and how it actually works...http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/06/evolution-and-suvs.html |