Archive for December 31st, 2007

The OLPC uses forth at a low level

A few months ago, while scouring the web for information related to FORTH after the switch went on in my head, I discovered that the OLPC XO uses Open Firmware, which permits lovely little display hacks (more here). Great stuff!

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Openembedded Bitbake recipe for Spidermonkey Javascript 1.7.0

In my ongoing quest for a sensible programming environment, I’ve filed an OpenEmbedded bug with patches providing support for version 1.7.0 of Spidermonkey, Mozilla’s javascript engine. It hasn’t gotten me much further toward my goal, but it’s nice having a quality javascript interpreter available for my OpenMoko phone, should I ever need one…

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iPlayer: needs RSS

The BBC’s new iPlayer service is great. The only thing that I’ve missed so far is RSS or Atom feeds: it’d be nice to be notified when a new episode of Favourite TV Show X turns up (and when it’s due to expire, too).

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