After some time working with the EFL port of WebKit, I’ve been nominated as an official webkit developer. Now I have super powers in the official repository :-), but I swear I intend to use it with caution and responsibility. I’ll not forget Uncle Ben’s advice: ”with great power comes great responsibility”.

I’m preparing a post to talk about WebKit, EFL, eve (a new web browser based on WebKit + EFL) and how to easily embed a browser in your application. Stay tuned.

As I did with previous projects I had at my university, I’d like to share another one: it’s a project using TinyOS. It’s mainly intended for education purposes, so if you are trying to learn TinyOS, it’s a good example to look at.

What does it do?

It’s a platform to monitor temperature and humidity of various rooms in a house. All sensors must collect data every X seconds and send them to sink, a predefined node. Sink can also change the value X and sensors may not reach sink in a single hop, so …

Today I was just wondering… what’s the version of the compiler which compiled my compiler. Quite a strange question to make myself and I really don’t know where this curiosity came from.

Looking in Wikipedia:

Early compilers were written in assembly language. The first self-hosting compiler — capable of compiling its own source code in a high-level language — was created for Lisp by Tim Hart and Mike Levin at MIT in 1962.^[2]^ Since the 1970s it has become common practice to implement a compiler in the language it compiles, although both Pascal and C have been popular choices …