In another order of things, since I couldn’t participate in Rails Day, and since I don’t have much free time lately, I’ve taken the time to get documentation and do small experiments with the next projects I’m incubating, to wit:
- A javascript syntax highlighter (ie, client side). I’m using already existing code from Jonathan de Halleux, but adapting it to Firefox (and, if some kind soul helps me, to Safari as well)
- A Bonjour plugin for rails
- A tool for population biologists (ie, demographs) to calculate the Mahalanobis distance between certain individuals and whole populations. Unfortunately, I’m stuck with the pooled within-sample covariance matrix. Anyone knows what’s the algorithm for calculating that beast?
I wish I could do a Bonjour —aka Rendezvous aka Zeroconf— plugin for Firefox as well, but XPCOM doesn’t do UDP, so I’d need to do a whole new component encapsulating the howl library (perhaps, adapting code from Camino?). Which, unfortunately, is too much for my skills yet :P I’d also like to experiment with the .NET bindings, but I haven’t touched .NET in a looooong time (before all the latest betas, I’d say)
Offtopic Any reader from New York City?
Update 2006-07-27 Now I know that XPCOM doesn’t have to do UDP, I just need to contact a local mDNS dæmon. And TIMTOWTDI(there is more than one way to do it).