I still have not had much of a chance to play with Laszlo, but IBM has released a very promising looking Integrated Development Environment for Laszlo in form of an Eclipse plugin (what else) on their alphaWorks site. I’ll definitely have to give this a try.
In the last few days, I have played a little with Subversion. I admit that I’m somewhat of a sucker for configuration management / version control systems. Up to now, I’ve had the opportunity to work with CVS, VSS, StarTeam, and Perforce (I’m not even counting RCS). Out of these tools, the only one I really dislike is VSS, as it its file-based (rather than true client-server) approach severly limits its scalability....
There appears to be some buzz about a technology called Laszlo right now. Laszlo is an XML-based scripting language that is compiled to Flash, and therefore provides a nice and easy way of writing Flash applications. Laszlo has just been made available as open source. Definitely worth a look. BoingBoing posting Discussion at Lambda the Ultimate Laszlo Homepage
There is a free book on Subversion version control. I have not had a chance to look at Subversion yet, but I am planning on upgrading my CVS installation at home (which I am keeping out of principle more than anything, as I don’t actually do all that much development at home these days) to Subversion.. Before my current job, I actually had not used CVS for about 5 years, as my previous companies used Visual Source Safe, StarTeam, and Perforce....
O’Reilly has produced an interesting poster about the History of Programming Languages. But beware: the PDF file is 39" wide, probably because it covers every minor version of every programming languages, rather than just important milestones. Apparently you can also get a printed version of the poster for free when you order two books from O’Reilly. There’s also a corresponding Wiki, and of course a lively Slashdot discussion. Would you have thought that there are over 2500 documented programming languages?...