2005/10/02
Hacklog
Latest items on the hacklog:
- Write a small GUI tool to parse and emit stats from RoR log files. These files are not really structured but the term color markup should help.
- Fed up with less than satisfactory solutions, I'm writing my own app for personal finance. Cocoa, bindings, leaving the door open for CoreData. A lot of discussions with V. about that, there must be some ways to approach this differently from all the very form-based, cumbersome things I see in other apps.
- A growing fascination for RDF data stores, and the ongoing meme about having an agile, rails-like framework with a RDF datastore instead of an ActiveRecord / SQL thing. Not totally convinced for now with the idea of being driven by an OWL model. Let's dig into this deeper.
- After an email exchange with Karl, I'm toying with the idea of adding a alternate RDF representation for MindFood. Should be easy.
- The GCC/CIL summer project apparently made great progress but was not completed. It would be a worthwhile piece of the puzzle. But apparently Ruby.NET was comitted a few days ago.
- On the Java front, it seems that dynamic (typing) languages are on the radar for Mustang. Good to know. But the mandatory-MS-and-CLR-bashing is quite childish, and when you remember the opinion Sun had about other languages than Java on the JVM, it's a bit ridiculous to read things like "you can program [the CLR] in whatever you want, as long as it is basically C#"