Lambda the Ultimate

Is it just me, or is not the ui/ux of multi-page topics just not good? Could there be a way to fix it or to enforce things can't be bigger than one page, or can we all start teaching ourselves that we should start new pages or something?

When I go to the "recent posts" and see some posts on some topic, I click on the topic title (not the individual *'s new posts in the "recent posts" list) and then if they are on anything other than page 1 i can't find them.

Antha is a high-level language for biology, making it easy to rapidly compose reproducible work flows using individually testable and reusable Antha Elements.

Recently made open source, the programming system Antha uses flow based programming. They have set up a bioinformatics related set of types in said system.

(I have nothing to do with the project, haven't even used it, but sure wish I could get paid to do so. :-)

The final program from the SPLASH Future of Programming workshop is up. A lot of great videos with a lot of great ideas for the future of our field!

Contents with brief one liners (see the program page for more detailed abstracts):

• Dynamic Organisms in Céu: a new abstraction mechanism for synchronous reactive programming where organisms reconcile objects and threads into a single concept.
• Shadershop: an interface for programming GPU shaders in the mode of a direct manipulation image editor like Photoshop.
• Lamdu - towards a next generation IDE:a structural code editor which mimics the convenience of textual code editing while leveraging its understanding of the code to offer intelligent type-aware completions and significantly simplify complier feedback and type errors.
• Two-way Dataflow: combining the power of frameworks like Rails and iOS with the simplicity of a spreadsheet.
• Moonchild: a toolkit for experimenting with new kinds of programming interfaces, based on a text editor written in HTML and JavaScript.
• Traveling through Time and Code: Omniscient Debugging and Beyond: a prototype of a live coding environment that makes it easy to navigate the execution and extends omniscient debugging with an additional dimension in order to navigate to different versions of the code.
• CodeHint: Dynamic and Interactive Synthesis for Modern IDEs: a technique for synthesizing code that generates and evaluates code at runtime.
• Genyris: a programming paradigm inspired by the semantic web.
• Version Control Optimized for Teaching and Learning: a prototype tool that acts as a version control system that captures very fine grained information about the development process.
• Kaya: Declarative Reactive: a declarative (like SQL) and reactive (like a spreadsheet) language where applications are composed in a spreadsheet-like editor.
• Leisure overview: a document-based computing environment that makes programming fun and let kids (and grownups) open the hood to see what's going on inside.
• Virtual World Framework & OMeta: collaborative programming of distributed objects with user defined languages: a synchronized collaborative 3D environment that allows easy application creation, and provides a simple interface to allow multiple users to interact with the state of the application that is synchronized across clients, using the notion of virtual time.