http://luanova.org welcome to the moon Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:52:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some experiences of using Lua to create and maintain websites for other people. Making a website just for yourself is one matter; doing it for others brings into play a range of quite separate considerations, that affect even the technical matters of design and implementation. You are the pig in the middle, the bacon in ... http://luanova.org/imperialguardian/ Installing Orbit Orbit is a lightweight framework for Web applications written in Lua. Unlike Sputnik, Orbit gives you the basic tools for constructing applications built on WSAPI. If you want authentication, standard look-and-feel, wiki-like functionality, you are better off starting with Sputnik; but Orbit is a satisfying way to build ... http://luanova.org/orbit1-2/ Beyond WikiWiki Sputnik is a second-generation extensible wiki engine written in Lua. First generation wikis (like the original WikiWIki) opened our eyes to the possibility of easy collaborative content generation, with automatic revision control. However, anybody who has been involved with a Wiki knows that they are not self-organizing, and ... http://luanova.org/sputnik/ The Golden Wombat of Destiny was a text adventure game (interactive fiction) written by Huw Collingbourne in early `80s. I honestly never got very far in that game, preferring Colossal Cave and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the days of the Kaypro IV. Today we're going to talk about ... http://luanova.org/golden-wombat-destiny/ Lua is among the top 20 most popular programming languages, according to the TIOBE Programming Community index. Lua is also faster and has a smaller memory footprint than other interpreted scripting languages (compare with Ruby, Python, PHP and JavaScript SpiderMonkey). We haven't heard a lot about Lua on the web, even ... http://luanova.org/lua-web-overview/ To play with Lua you need to download the source code and compile it. This isn't as scary as it sounds, as Lua is a positively tiny download and doesn't depend on anything more than a C compiler. Lua is written in standard ANSI C, so any one should work. ... http://luanova.org/launch-getting-lua-installed/ The Lua programming language was developed by three members of Tecgraf, the Computer Graphics Technology Group of PUC-Rio, a University in Rio de Janeiro. Not merely an academic pursuit, it was developed primarily as a replacement for SOL (meaning "sun") and DEL (data entry language) for Brazilian oil company Petrobras. Lua ... http://luanova.org/a-computer-scientist-a-mathematician-and-an-engineer/ This past summer I evaluated both Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom for managing my digital photographs. You see, iPhoto 6 was getting a bit sluggish, Photoshop Elements even more so (not yet having Intel support). To top it off, I was considering a Digital SLR, so I'd need something that ... http://luanova.org/3/