Code Scavenger’s Chronicles

A friend introduced me to scratch today..wrote a trivial program with it…A plane falling down on an unassuming unaware kitty, with sound effects of course…My kid loves it and I had fun writing it…if I can use the term ‘write’…its more like playing with lego. Very nice medium for teaching programming to kids!

Of course, its all based on squeak; another horse from the time-ravaged smalltalk stables – a language which offers among other jaw-dropping features – which methods (yes, method not classes) to package in a deployment unit, which version of classes (and methods) to deploy, add behavior to any class (yes, any..nothing is sacred); and this one is fun – bend the smalltalk grammer itself to your iron will.

Ah, one wonders what variation of man’s unfathomable greed led to the sad demise of such a wonderful thing – and of course led to the ugliness I have to deal with day in and day out.

Java.

Programming could have been so much more fun!

Cheaper rates never guaranteed precision guided targeting

…was launched yesterday. One of the coolest implementations of canvas around.

It has some interesting stuff in there. For instance :- a global event bus for all events and listeners, a nice little syntax resolver which supports js, html, css currently. Very easy on the eyes, javascript.

They are also going to support VIM syntax per the forums. That’ll be the day!

I’m in.

Hard to write about stuff when you are neck deep finding performance bottlenecks and thinking up algos to fix them.

Catching up on some hard-earned sleep…really need it….be back in a while.

ta.

PS – Its been a long while since I had two virgin books sitting on my bookshelf for 2 weeks.