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  • Strapdown.js

    Very cool : Strapdown.js – Instant and elegant Markdown documents

  • Dog : A Social Language

    Dog seems to be a little language for writing social software. Initial thoughts : Big question is what it compiles to. It’s about time we had a programming language that compiles a single program down to parts that run on both server and clients, in a really easy and transparent way. Building in knowledge of protocols…

  • Project Schema

    This is awesome : Project Schema combines mind-mapping with management of parts of a CAD model. 

  • Command Line In Web Apps

    Excellent! Mozilla is releasing a command line library for use in web-apps. 

  • Initializr

    This looks pretty good.

  • O'Reilly Early Release

    I didn’t know about the O’Reilly Early Release program. Basically, it seems you can buy a book as it’s still being written, and give feedback while receiving updates and rewrites. Nice idea. I’m tempted to buy some of these.

  • Programming With A Mind Map

    Using a MindMap to store documentation. Actually it sounds like Freemind is much like an outliner, in that you can drive it with the keyboard and collapse / expand etc. I wonder how using this compares to LEO. (Hat-tip Other Michael)

  • JSON / RSS

    Dave Winer is considering an official(?) JSON flavour of RSS. I just want to say here that I like RSS, for what it is, and what it does, and I like JSON to actually work with, because parsing XML is still a faff. So it gets my vote.

  • Smart Notebooks

    An intriguing Kickstarter project. Seems that Smallest Federated Wiki would be a good starting point for this.

  • Planet Building

    As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m rather taken with Planet Planet, the old-skool Python based RSS aggregator that outputs flat HTML. I used it to build my wonderful Future Manufacturing river. And I want to use it for more things. So I’ve created a small script to make installing Planet ultra-easy on a…