Glagolitic Capital Letter Spidery Ha
A great Unicode in 5 Minutes presentation from Mark Lentczner at Linden Lab. He passed it along after reading this dense post, clearly concerned about the welfare of my readers. (Searching out the...
View ArticleIs Processing a Language?
This question is covered in the FAQ on Processing.org, but still tends to reappear on the board every few months (most recently here). Someone once described Processing syntax as a dialect of Java,...
View ArticleWet and Dry Ingredients; Mixing Bowls and Baking Dishes
Digging through my reading list pile, I begin skimming through A Box, Darkly: Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code Aesthetics by Michael Mateas and Nick Montfort. I was moving along pretty good until...
View ArticlePirates of Statistics
Article from the New York Times a bit ago, covering R, everyone’s favorite stats package: R is also the name of a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside...
View ArticleJavaScript: The Good Parts
Watched Douglas Crockford’s “JavaScript: The Good Parts” talk, based on his book of the same name. I like Crockford’s work on JSON—or rather, the idea of simple file formats that need simple APIs to...
View ArticleFood Fight!
As reported here and here, Apple has updated the language in the latest release of their iPhone/iPad developer tools to explicitly disallow development with other tools and languages: 3.3.1 —...
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