Archive for the ‘kewl tools’ Category

Genyris Language Released …

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Bill Birch (local in Melbourne Australia) has released Genyris, a new language, derived from LISP.

Lisp is great, Bill is local and also great, so check it out here !

ExecuteQuery, don’t database without it …

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

I’ve used many database centric IDE’s like dbVisualizer and Squirrel but none of them stack up against ExecuteQuery. It’s feature rich, simple to use and free. So if you database, don’t leave home without it !

Maven: The Definitive Guide

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

I’m a big fan of Maven and have considered writing a book on Maven2, however that’s not necessary now as Jason Van Zyl has posted his book, Maven: The Definitive Guide. It’s almost complete and when I’m finished reading it end-to-end I’ll post more comments, but since good Maven2 information is hard to find I’m posting now. There is also a downloadable version of the book.

Please give it a read and send your feedback to Jason.

Enso - Humanizing the computer

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

I’m a big fan of the work of Jef Raskin (creator of Apple’s Macintosh) and the Humanized guys have made a really kewl tool called Enso that makes computing simpler, using some of the ideas pioneered by Jef.

I wonder how long until this is part of Windows Vista?

I’m told that Macintosh OSX has a similar feature, and so does Linux (Catapult).