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JSTalk Extras
"JSTalk Extras are loadable bundles of Objective-C code, which add functionality to your JavaScript programs via extra classes or functions. You make JSTalk Extras using the standard Cocoa bundle project, and place the resulting bundle in your ~/Library/Application Support/JSTalk/Extras/ folder.
So for instance, I thought it would be cool if you could talk to SQLite using my FMDB classes. So I put the classes in a bundle, and I'm now calling to SQLite from JavaScript"
The PyCon Summits
"One unscheduled item that got a lot of buzz was the unladen_swallow project. This is a branch of CPython (2.6 initially, but eventually forward ported to 3.x) initiated by people at Google, with the goal of improving CPython’s performance by 5X. A 5X speedup would be pretty amazing - the details of how they plan to accomplish this are in the project plan. Apparently it is already 30% faster than CPython, and this version is being used to run some of the Python code on YouTube. They have yet to embark on the task of integrating LLVM as JIT for Python. I am also happy to see that they are going to tackle removal of Python’s global interpreter lock (GIL). The team at Google is planning to merge their code back into the main CPython implementation, and have been discussing this in detail with the existing core Python developers. The unladen_swallow is focusing on Linux, but they told me that they would gladly accept community help for testing on Macintosh, Windows, and other platforms."
Sun, Apache
"This blog explains the JCP IP process in pictures. And how Sun have managed to use it to block Apache Harmony." JDK 7.... really?
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