JavaScript

One of todo in my mind (and maybe other content providers) is useful and comprehensive related links to somewhere automatically. To make it available in Drupal, I wrote Related Contents Block a while ago. Anyway, it only limited to only local contents. I hope to find better solution to make it more compresive. Eventually, I found .

I'm working on geographically distributed computing aka grid computing. Since there are so many resources on this planet, it would be beautiful to see them on the earth graphically. offers this kind of applications could be implemented in a few hours using or . All you need to know are pairs of latitude and longitude to identify where they are. Well, I also want to show the map in full-screen for easily navigating around the globe. In other words, it should resize itself according to browser size. Google doesn't tell me how to do it. Fortunately, I found it!

XUL-based Drupal Manager: Progress Update

Since I am a menter in , I would like to update what I and my student was done last month. My student is working hard on developing XUL-based Drupal Manager project. That's a short description. For a long one, he is developing a next generation of graphics user interface based on XML technology, aka XUL, proposed by Mozilla. XUL is a candidate for Web 2.0, another one is AJAX. AJAX seems to be better because it runs on most browsers while XUL can only run on Mozilla-based browsers. However, in other point of view, there is a possibility to run XUL on any XUL engine. Some day, XUL engine might be integrated into OS like Java or .Net.

GWT Hello World in Python

Eventually, pyjamas has reached the first milestone to write Hello World example in Python and then translate them to JavaScript and HTML. Note that it also supports event handling. Let’s see how it looks like in action.

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According to my last posts about  and Python to JavaScript Compiler, I have found lots of effort to bring the dream come true. Let me summarize them.

Python to JavaScript Compiler

According to  which is designed for transforming Java to JavaScript, I have also found Python to JavaScript Compiler. It has not been finished or actively developed but it may be useful for all python developers including me.