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Archive of posts filed under the programming category.

From UNIX in the 80s to Android …

fragmentation is the key.

Let’s just hope there’s no SCO around to ruin it for everybody.

Present meets the past

Halo for Atari 2600Halo for Atari 2600.

By Ed Fries, former Microsoft executive. Proving that a hacker is a hacker no matter how hard and far he falls.

Instructed Inform 7 from Saturday onwards

Creating Interactive fiction with Inform 7Aaron A. Reed is just about to publish the first book on game development with Inform 7.

According to Amazon, the book is available on Saturday.

Application economy now and then

Application development economics, just the thing for the fragmented era.

Useful programming links

Zero install programmable eye candy

sketch.processing.org – the Processing language available through Bespin.

Akihabara

Akihabara is a seemingly very powerful javascript toolkit that allows creation of fluid arcade games playable in the browser without flash.

Reinvigoration through projects

Reinvigorated programmer keeps on prodding me to grab the keyboard and start coding. Something. Anything.

Programming minimalism

Fight the Bloat!

return 42;

Hello world.

New programming language concepts, part n

Sikuli is not in the class of elaborate and out-of-hand injokes like befunge. Even though the concept of a screenshot-based language does sound like a hoax, its MIT-heritage recommends taking a closer look.

One more platform

Kindle opens up.

Underhanded C

The contest to celebrate surreptiously misbehaving programs is upon us once again.

Word of the week: privacy theatre

Privacy theater, security theater‘s second cousin.

EDIT 29.12.2009: Yeah, miswrote the title, fixed now.

Back to roots

Dan Bricklin, inventor of the spreadsheet program, takes on programming the iphone (and emerges with a reasonable app).

A /. triplet

Interesting pieces of news via slashdot.org:

Famous for fifteen nanoseconds

Finally remembered to upload my Maemo Summit presentation to slideshare.net.

And they're off

ifcomp logoThe annual interactive fiction competition has started.

The number of entries is lower than in years, and the lack of any TADS games is worrisome as well.

Simple amusements

As far as simplistic digital toys are considered, this circle-dividing flash app takes the top billing of the week.

Overflowed

Stack Overflow, a problem-solving social network for programmers.

Neatly implemented, and packed with useful information.

Jamie Zawinski takes on Palm’s odd application store developer rules.

What just happened?

Reversible debugging, possibly the coolest feature in version 7 of gdb, enables running programs backwards.

Apparently no chronological anomalies can be accidentally introduced while debugging recursive algorithms.

Snakes on the web, an insightful analysis of the state of web development.

Yet another interactive fiction authorship tool

Curveship is slated for release in the fall.

Torkingtonian awesomeness

I’ve been a fan of Nathan Torkington’s daily 4 in O’Reilly Radar.

The crop of this week includes highlights such as:

Skulpt, an in-browser implementation of Python.