Interesting Snippets

The Perl6 community has done something very interesting and injected inline test cases from their test suite into the Perl6 Synopsises. It's a neat idea. Literate Testing perhaps? Or maybe more accurately, testable spec writing. See Synopsis 4 for an example.

I also thought this was very cool. I learned some interesting things:

  • The $100 Laptop Project had Google Summer of Code interns.
  • The $100 Laptop display will be 6 x 4.5 inches, 200 dpi, 1200 x 900 pixels...
  • ... but a given pixel is a red pixel, a blue pixel, or a green pixel (forever).
  • The SoC intern working on a Gnome theme for the $100 Laptop has done a lot of research about what's going to look good on these Laptops by building a nested X server that mimics this display mode.

I'm looking forward to seeing what they do to font rendering to make it readable. I've got to say the $100 Laptop is the coolest thing happening in the computer world right now. The fact that Paul Graham appears to be actively working on Arc is a distant second.

posted on: 08/24/2006 | path: /tech