For the coming International Day of Poetry, I have a “guess that poet” up at the aule-browser blog.
Poetry annotations browser
March 5th, 2010Literary Browser for Digital Content
February 26th, 2010A literary browser is not an e-reader. It is a tool for annotating, linking alternative translations, comparing citations and a host of other research tasks.
Today my library obtained a copy of a volume from the new collected works of poet X.
X wrote in more than one language, but published little. The tome that I have on loan is massive. His estate has permitted the editors to print everything that is not prose which he left behind. Their object is to aid the scholar. In their zeal, the great tome contains translations. Here we enter the absurd.
Set my tome aside – do not consider the green footprint of the volume or the repeated transfer by vehicle each time borrowed, by freight each time sold.
Let’s consider the Canetti Nachlass due to be available to scholars in 2024. I can only hope that in the 14 years remaining, that Johanna Canetti will have authorized the preparation of a virtual archive. A recent example may be the Arendt archive.
Curl RTE and processing.org
November 2nd, 2009I was visiting a Curl 2-D demo page when I noticed a minor over-sight and a minor worry: the page appears not to mention that to run the demos you should click on either of the two images: one of “smoke rings” and one which creates a pattern of pseudoantherium. The minor worry was about which browsers to use for the demo, so I took a moment and tried a few from my XP desktop. No problems with my handful of current up-to-date browsers.
The intent of the demo’s was to show the ease with which the same results could be obtained in Curl as in another language from MIT: Processing.
Given the hype around Flash Catalyst these demo’s seemed worth a visit.
Tk security, Safe-Tcl and the Tk plugin
September 9th, 2009Some docs are now out-of-date on the web, so I have started some links and quotes at aule-browser.com
Prolog pages at prolog.aule-browser.com
July 25th, 2009There is now an Aule browser for Prolog. If you set www.aule-browser.com as a privileged site in your Curl RTE Control Panel then you will be able to enjoy some of the advanced features as they appear: tracking your notes on these topics, indicating which pages have updated since your last visit, selecting topics to track and then creating links to topics not offered by default in this Aule.. Watch for links to pages on XSB and FLORA-2 for the Semantic Web and Clojure for the JVM.
Some of the Aule buttons are to such topics as Prolog embedded in Smalltalk and constraint resolution implemented in Smalltalk.
And there is a link to the XSB OpenShore project. Several links relate to DataLog and minimalist rule engines.
If you have fallen out of touch with Prolog, now might be the time to visit Logtalk or BinNet, both on the top toolbar of this Aule Browser as defaults.
As advanced features appear in the wikipedia browser and migrate into common Curl packages, those features will automatically become part of your Prolog Aule when you next visit the site.
More information on installing this and other Aule Browsers on your Windows desktop will follow in the days to come.
Web Velocity released
July 1st, 2009I have a note over at my Curl blog that Web Velocity is now available. So “Borges” for Ruby should look out even if running on rubinious …
Actually, CINCOM’s framework will likely see adoption in the enterprise (in recent years, financials) and Ruby on Rails remain the small ISV temptation that it already is … and no, Smalltalk is not dead: just look at the CINCOM client list.
Nor is PROLOG dead. One of the vendors simply chooses to mention their software and their clients, not their language. Competitive advantage, I suppose. What Seaside has done for Smalltalk we may yet see Logtalk do for PROLOG.
As for Curl, there should be an announcement soon …
Falcon Programming Language advancing
June 27th, 2009I had a note from Giancarlo Niccolai bring me up-to-date on Falcon which has now reached version 0.9.2
Falcon is a multi-paradigm language – not yet as multiply gifted as Oz, but on its way.
The plans for Falcon from here to 1.0 are very ambitious: like Io, it is a language to keep an eye on. Are you coming with?
Aule Browser
June 26th, 2009Over at my LogiqueWerks pages there is now a demo of the Aule Browser to view online or run on desktop for Windows or linux. You must first install the Curl runtime engine – something both safe and easy (Curl came out of MIT at the same time as the w3.org and has been in use in large corporations in Japan for almost a decade.)
‘Aule’ means hall or entryway (it is ‘Eule’ that mean owl … ) and because of the ‘lobby’ concept in the Io language, I had once suggested it as a name for Io. “Simple” was taken, so ‘Aule’ it is!
Simple Browser and Clean Browser
June 26th, 2009I took a moment to look at my Process Explorer (MS SysInternals) after starting up Google’s GMail Desktop applet. The price? Three processes consuming about 60 MB of available memory (this is Windows, so we are talking “available” and not my paltry 2 GB of RAM.) And when I open my gmail inside my LW site-specific Curl embedded browser? I have only added 1.2 MB to the load carried by the Curl RTE. Of course Internet Explorer and FireFox do help my harddrives stay in shape with all that swapping …. or do those folks think that all we do is browse the net with no real work applications open at the same time? Oh right .. those applications are going to be built into the internet browser …
So why the difference? The plugins and the bookmarks. I have a bookmarks set which exports as 5 Mb. It is too much for Maxthon to load. It is deadly when I ask even IE8 to first add a bookmark (go make coffee or tea or take a stroll.)
But Curl can load dynamically, so watch for the bookmarking addition to our Curl embedded browsers over at LogiqueWerks.
