On a small scale, central planning makes sense; on a larger scale, market mechanisms make sense...

[via The Agoric Papers]

Even this was written in 1988 with OOP as the solution in mind, it is even more true nowadays and becomes reality through numerous web service based interfaces and apis.


Python 2.3.4 (#53, May 25 2004, 21:17:02) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import spellcheck1
>>> spellcheck1.translate('Dom Waits trinkt gerne Ret Bull bei der Mobilkom Ausdria')
'Tom Waits trinkt gerne Red Bull bei der Mobilkom Austria'
>>>


what perl and google can do for you

[via Benjamin]

If you would like to add a translator to your firefox browser, just visit the following page:

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/leo.html

Note: leo seems to be on a weekend vacation at the moment

A meeting of Helma developers will be held on Friday, December 3rd, 2004 at the Alpenmilchzentrale in Vienna. This is an opportunity to catch up with what's cooking in Helmaland and hang out with other Helma developers. If you have something interesting to share you may also consider to propose a presentation.


[via helma-dev]

very, very good idea. will be fun to meet up.