Ext JS

“Ext JS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications.”
In particular, it allows you to build desktop-like applications that run in a web browser. Considering the speed of CPUs and Internet connections today, this could be pretty interesting.

jtracert

jTracert will allow you to generate sequence diagrams directly from your application runtime!
* This gives you a lot of advantages:
* Understand the code created by your colleagues/partners in a short time
* Rapidly generate documentation for your partners or users.
* Easily investigate what’s happening in large Java applications
* Excellent companion for a common debugger

People in Pain

Most would agree that it is probably impossible to “reason with” people who are in pain since they don’t often act in a manner that you would expect (read “normal”). The trouble, though, is that often times you can’t see their pain, and that a lot of people today seem to be in it. It is no wonder why you might have noticed that so many people seem to “act strangely” these days.

Tendrils in Scheme

Here is an art piece by Tom De Smedt written in NodeBox (Python) :

http://www.nodebox.net/code/index.php/Tendrils

It is in turn based on work done in Processing by a group ART+CODE.

Ported to Abstracting:

http://github.com/dharmatech/abstracting/blob/master/examples/tendril…

Although Abstracting is OpenGL based, I made a NodeBox compatibility library which allowed for a straightforward port.

Here is a rendering performed by Abstracting/Ypsilon :

tendrils-ypsilon-2009-04-07.png

Ed

I wonder if that is something that Script-Fu would do well?

(via comp.lang.scheme)