The JSHARPS Web Stack

I need a word for a development stack. A word to describe Java - the platform - leveraged by dynamic languages such as Jython, PHP, JRuby, Rhino etc.

Sort of like LAMP but different, I don't want to capture specifics about OS or Web Server or Database... Just the programming language experiences.

Now Sun have a JSR for scripting on the JVM called JSR 223 which is a start in the right direction.

223 (decimal) is the unicode code point for SHARP S. Thus, JSHARPS.

Pleasing undertones of analogy with C-Sharp. The brave can write it as two characters : a J and the German Eszett.

Just a thought.

Why Python is amazing

why Python is amazing.

I particularly like the "Who Uses Python and What Do They Look Like?" section title.

Spot-the-Python-Geek is an interesting pattern matching problem to be sure.

Transputers remembered

"Of all the weird and wonderful machines that strutted and fretted their hour upon the stage in those heady days, my favorite was the transputer..."

Multi-core Processors: transputers reborn

Do you own your own office data?

If it is stored in proprietary formats with lossy "export" functions then no, frankly, you don't.

Want to do something about it?
Try here: http://www.odfalliance.org/

Software is like ...

Not mathematics, not linguistics (as lore from the elders would have it), but something much more prosaic that you would not like to get on your shoe.

Software is like....

AJAX on the microwave considered bad

Why using AJAX on the microwave may be a bad idea

Jython moves to Subversion

Jython is now in Subversion. SVN makes re-organising folder structures a lot less painful than it is in CVS and I suspect we will see significant re-orgs of the Jython repository over the next while.

Recent weeks have seen an upsurge of activity on the Jython mailing lists...Interesting times ahead.