A new approach to creating scriptable apps: allow your users to use an ordinary PowerShell console to access your application's objects (which are explicitly hosted in another PowerShell runspace) at runtime, including tab expansion and piping objects into and out of your application....
RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data ... has interfaces in all the usual open source scripting languages
Whatever:hover is a small script that automatically patches :hover, :active and :focus for IE6, IE7 and IE8 quirks, letting you use them like you would in any other browser. Version 3 introduces ajax support, meaning that any html that gets inserted into the document via javascript will also trigger :hover, :active and :focus styles in IE.
Orange is a component-based data mining software. It includes a range of preprocessing, modelling and data exploration techniques. It is based on C++ components, that are accessed either directly (not very common), through Python scripts (easier and better), or through GUI objects called Orange Widgets.
Links are getting shorter, information smaller and here's another smaller blogroll avatar... the favicon. Google has an online PNG converter for favicon.ico files in the root directory of a domain. eg. http://google.com/favicon.ico Here's a realtime script to help get the favicon link.
Interesting clippings from the slides:
"What can we do with it?
* Write applications. Melodie uses lots of Smalltalk, first
pure-Smalltalk app committed to svn in January.
* Write scripts. Corner activation and gesture app uses
Smalltalk for scripting.
* Modify existing apps...
"
"We can inspect classes in a code browser, see method
names, and write replacements in any running application.
In a perfect Free Software system, any user can make any
changes. "
My comment above might imply that Smalltalk is not modern. The truth is far from it, as Smalltalk is still pushing the boundaries of technology and user interfaces, from Croquet and Qwaq, to Alice, Sophie, Scratch and Etoys.
(I fixed Friday's broken link to the PDF.) From what I read so far, this seems to be another attempt at a fully introspecitve integrated and customisable personal computer with a graphical desktop. In other words, it is Dynabook Smalltalk and Lisp workstations all over again, but quite likely with some interesting modern twists.
CSSTidy is an open source CSS parser and optimizer with full CSS2 support. It is available as executable file (available for Windows, Linux and OSX) which can be controlled per command line and as PHP script (both with almost the same functionality).
The PHP/Java Bridge is an implementation of a streaming, XML-based network protocol, which can be used to connect a native script engine, for example PHP, Scheme or Python, with a Java or ECMA 335 virtual machine. It is up to 50 times faster than local RPC via SOAP, requires less resources on the web-server side. It is faster and more reliable than direct communication via the Java Native Interface, and it requires no additional components to invoke Java procedures from PHP or PHP procedures from Java.