Google’s Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow that seeks to improve the performance of the Python programming language. One of the project’s goals is to replace the Python virtual machine with an LLVM-based JIT.
An great talk from Mik Kersten from Tasktop (You might know him from Mylyn) @ W-JAX conference – it is about productivity and topics surrounding it:
The video can be found here.
Great post: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/10-rare-html-tags-you-really-should-know/
ModuleFusion won one of the awards at EclipseCon 2009. ModuleFusion describes itself as:
The goal of ModuleFusion is to help programmers to use the OSGi Service
Platform as their underlying runtime environment. ModuleFusion contains
a full stack typical for Java enterprise applications. This stack
currently consists of best-of-breed open source frameworks from the
Java ecosystem. Additionally, ModuleFusion contains the necessary glue
code to easily use these frameworks within OSGi.
It currently consists of the Equinox as well as the Apache Felix OSGi framework. nice work & congratulations!
P.S. another award winner was: http://directory.apache.org/studio/
Tim Berners-Lee gave a great talk at TED2009 conference (I have mentioned TED some time ago 🙂). He mentions DBpedia which aggregates data from all kind of source…Very interesting! Besides tht also Openstreetmap ist mentioned another great tool.
A video of his talk can be found here.
So do not forget: Tim Berners-Lee needs your raw data!
The slides Tim presented can be found here (Click the screen to get to the next slide)…