[Edu-sig] some notes and links

[kirby urner]

Hey good news about numpy now supporting Python 3.  Some of you will
have seen that announcement.

I'm getting ready for DjangoCon here in Portland, am likely to be
'snake handler' again this year, carry the PSF totem around, a token
of friendship when she meets up with Djangopony.

I've been looking at some of the swoopy effects in HTML5, thinking
about the future of trucking software, such as transportation system
managers.

http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/tomorrows-guis.html
http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/notes-on-trucking.html

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/  (not all browsers will handle,
I'm using Chrome, worth doing the demo).

>From last Djangocon:

"""
Erich Ocean: HTML5 is a technical spec, but culturally its more a
Flash killer. The beefy JavaScript engines are making a big
difference. Dynamic languages win again (sorry Java). SproutCore is
the HTML5 application framework adopted by and now developed at Apple.
It's open source, like WebKit and LLVM. Erich thinks WebKit is the
future for the browser, thinks Django is well positioned on the server
side. Webkit will run on Windows. HTML5 is moving faster than many
think. You'll be able to sneak WebKit in the back door into IE6 even.
This talk relates to the anticipated future of low latency push apps
that keep updating the browser without waiting for client-side
requests i.e. like Comet (see above). HTML5 web sockets...
"""

http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2009/09/djangocon-day-3.html

As always, when I look at industry software, I think about how this
could translate to the pre-college curriculum.

Given my Geometry + Geography paradigm, I see trucking mixing with
Google Street View as a way to learn more about a given topography
(anywhere trucks travel, doesn't have to be North America or anything
so parochial -- how about Phuntsholing to Samdrup Jonkar by inland
mountain road (via Tongsa, Mongar and Tashigang) -- sounds like Lord
of the Rings.  I've done it the whole way (though not as a truck
driver) at one time or another.

http://www.4dsolutions.net/satacad/martianmath/mm12.html  (Geometry + Geography)

Or instead of a truck, a bizmo (business mobile):

http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2007/10/designing-engineers.html  (funny lookin').

I'm off to a meeting on open source in Afghanistan, per recent posting
to Diversity.

Kirby