Friday, September 17, 2004

[ update 2004/10/05: The URL's have changed for the latest Factor version ] For those interested in exploring the Factor Programming Language implementation I've put a running instance of the Factor webserver online. This is the 'C' implementation of Factor that is running, using a 5MB heap. I'm not sure how well that heap will last on heavy load though! Some links to various functionality: Inspect - Lets you browse through all variables in the running Factor system. Browser - A Smalltalk style browser for viewing the Factor source code. Note that I've turned editing off for this demo. With editing on you can edit and save code in the running server. Counter1 - A continuation based counter web application example. Counter2 - Another example. This one keeps a single copy of the count per session. Todo - A very simple 'Todo list' application. Create a todo list, add entries, edit them, etc. 12:36:38 PM

A new release of  Io for Series 60 Symbian devices is available. The 80Kb download is iosymbian_0_3.zip. This release updates the version of Io to IoVM-2004-09-11. It also fixes a couple of bugs, has better support for futures and asynchronous calls, and has a proper Uid registered  with Symbian. The patches to the Io base code have been supplied to Steve, the Io author, and will appear in the standard Io source distribution. The Symbian specific code is actively being worked on and is not yet updated in the Io source distribution. I plan to get a release of the code suitable for that soon. I'm interested in feedback, in particular Io features that don't work correctly, or suggestions on Symbian libraries to provide wrappers for. Currently this is only tested on a Nokia 3650 and Nokia 7610. It definetely does not work on the 3650 but does on the 7610. Getting things working on the 3650 will not be too difficult and I hope to do that over the next week or two. 11:06:33 AM