I just finished giving a presentation on my language, Luther. Luther is really just a slimmed down Python interpreter. It has strings, numbers, lists, dictionaries, functions and generators, though the syntaxt is slightly different. Nothing revolutionary, but it definitely was a lot of fun! You can read the documentation or play with a live console ( Read more... )

Well I'm definitely not the first person to read this link (it's something like 15 years old), but The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat is a fantastically interesting read. Sure, it uses terms like 'cyberspace' and 'baud' and discusses unthinkably squeezing multiplayer capabilities onto a 0.3 kilobit connection, but the massively-social issues they ( Read more... )

Going to give this website thing a try again! To start it all off, here are seven fascinating books I've been reading, in no order:

Agile Database Techniques - Scott AmblerThe Agile Method requires small incremental changes. A database schema is extremely hard to icrementally change. This book explores the clash. It aims to be the book for users ( Read more... )