Psyntax is now integrated into the heart of Guile:
For users, the practical implication of this is that syntax-rules and syntax-case are available, all the time. This is a lovely, lovely thing.
— Wingo
(via wingolog)
Category: Link
Clearing the Terminal Screen in Cygwin
It bugged me that Cygwin didn’t include the ‘clear’ command. This post explains that installing the ‘ncurses’ package will add clear; and also that C:l will clear the screen in bash. Thanks Hafiz!
A Card Stack Handheld UI Approach
Here is one example of a handheld UI approach: a stack of cards.
They used a slider that seemed to better fit the app, too.
The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
— Guy Kawasaki
(via Guy)
Eiffel iPhone Progress
The runtime is up and running on the device and the simulator.
Eiffel and the iPhone
This post describes what might be the beginnings of developing in Eiffel on the iPhone (Manu is a prolific Eiffeler, and works for Bertrand Meyer’s company).
Learning to Let Go
Here is a good article about learning how to let go of your past investment so that you can be free to move in the right direction moving forward.
It must be very hard and counterintuitive to do so; but perhaps that is just backwards thinking on my part!
iPhone Barcode Scanners and Boosting Innovation
Here is a good article about a barcode scanner library for the iPhone. One interesting thing is that the imaging library used in the app is available in a SDK sold by the company.
It seems that the application is meant to drive sales of the API.
I suppose this is not a new idea, but I have never done something like this so it was new to me :).
Seem interesting?
Justifying GNUPlot
Using mapping tools for information sharing
Here is an article about an interesting application of mapping technology.
I wonder what kind of business ventures might be driven from such an approach.