Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
I stumbled across ZoomIn today which is a New Zealand map site with lots of interesting features. You can search with street addresses and get maps of pretty much all of New Zealand and explore via a Google Maps like interface. Included are optional aerial photographs of many of the regions. I like the way it uses Ajax to narrow... more →
jhc looks interesting. It's an optimizing Haskell compiler "...that aims to produce very efficient code as well as explore novel compilation techniques in an attempt to make them practical." Two things from the site that interested me were: more →
Alessandro Colomba has announced the release of version 0.33 of SISCweb. SISCweb is a continuation based web server written in SISC, a Scheme implementation that runs on the JVM. New features mentioned in the release announcement include: more →
I've written in the past about the ways of pushing events from the server to the web browser. Recently a this model of usage has had a term defined for it called 'Comet'. My plan was to have a library that modelled a web page as an asynchronous Erlang process. Other Erlang processes can send it messages using the standard... more →
Haskell gets more interesting every day. In the Haskell Weekly News was an announcement of HAppS, a Haskell Application Server. A nice list of features: more →