The Aloha Editor Developer Conference is happening this week in Hacker Dojo, Mountain View. While some other events may steal a bit of focus from this one, there seems to be a good amount of energy here. The event opened with Haymo Meran's keynote on the state and roadmap of Aloha Editor. As part of this there was an interesting...
Quite a different way of doing software:
Disclaimer: I’m a software developer with a background in Nokia’s Maemo mobile Linux ecosystem. I’ve built both software and community services for it. As a Maemo enthusiast, I’ve also been following MeeGo with interest, and am helping to build some of the project infrastructure there as well. But I do not speak with the authority of the MeeGo project, and...
So, Google acquired PostRank, the service calculating impact of blog posts and other items in social media. If you want something similar but without the Google tie-in, then a good option is my social impact calculator which is fully free software written in PHP. It was originally written in 2007, but the newer version has been cleaned of Midgard dependencies...
JavaScript to CoffeeScript converterThis is an interesting option for making older JS codebases more easily maintainable CS, or when dealing with large patches sent in JS format to a CS project.
Neat CoffeeScript one-liners
I attended the Node.js workshop in Falsy Values last week. As both Node.js and CoffeeScript are often short of examples, I decided to put my implementations of the exercises up on GitHub. This even resulted in a ReadWriteWeb post:
Liveblogs from the Falsy Values JavaScript conference
This weekend, after Falsy Values, I will be flying to San Francisco for a couple of weeks. There are some conferences: MeeGo Conference, May 23-25 Aloha Editor dev con, June 6-8 However, as there is quite some time between these two events, it would be interesting to meet cool people and/or projects. So if you're in the area, drop me...
Remember that bit about JavaScript being the universal runtime? If you doubted it, then here is some proof: boot and run Linux in your browser.