I have a somewhat voracious appetite for learning new things. It’s something that I need to curb, somewhat, because that usually means that you never spend enough time with one thing to learn it completely, before moving on to the Next New Thing.
Over the past year, I’ve blogged about Ruby and Python in particular, and I still sit down from time to time and improve my skills and knowledge in both languages. Lately I’ve been spending more time with C.
Yesterday, however, I saw something that will definitely become my pet programming project for the next little while; what I saw was script.aculo.us.
I’m still not sure how much I like the trend of cute domain names (de.lirio.us, del.icio.us, etc) but I doubt that they’ll be going away; they’re memorable, which is one of the ideal features of a good name. The site name aside, script.aculo.us has some extremely cool examples of javascript; drag and drop and visual effects, for starters.
Another cool site (and another “cute” domain name) is dontclick.it. This is an example, using Macromedia Flash, of a UI with no clicking. Cool!
