Compiling Ruby with Phoenix

The project I participate in during the lecture Building compilers with Phoenix aims at prototyping a .NET compiler for Ruby. More specifically, we intend to map constructs of Ruby to their IL counterpart and let Phoenix do the rest some of the work. Phoenix is a compiler framework from Microsoft, by the way.

The project page at Holger's will, in time, hopefully contain useful stuff on the topic.

Java Discussion

Using some slides, I prepared a discussion at work on some features and properties of Java 1.5. There are lots of features that I believe a professional developer ought to be at least aware of. Some to be avoided, others to be used just when the circumstances are right.

Just finished a style for Zotero, which is a Firefox plug-in for managing ones research sources. The style formats according to the specs of the marketing branch at the FU Berlin. At least roughly, I suppose. With my master's thesis coming up, I guess I'll have a deeper look into Zotero sometime in the near future.