A while back I was messing around with Yahoo Widgets. I thought it might be helpful to have a schema so that my XML editor would help with auto-complete and validation. As far as I could tell, there wasn't an XSD for the widget format. So, I wrote my own. This one isn't complete, but it's a good start for someone who is looking for a starting point. View it at http://monoport.com/1556, an ad-free pastebin site...

Ok, I want to play with this some more and blog about it...but to help me to remember I'll post this blurb: Using DSL Tools, you can create a custom graphical designer that uses your domain-specific diagram notation. You can then create custom text templates that use models created in your designer to generate source code and other files. In this release the validation framework makes it easy to apply constraints to the language, and you can deploy the designer as a standard installer package for...

I ran across a posting on the main geekswithblogs page. Aaron R had written about some projectile physics calcs. It reminded me of some graphics programs I wrote on my HP-48GX. So just for fun I used his sample calc to write a simple ballistics simulator: Just some simple math, but it was fun. Once I get a group created on Project Distributor, I'll put up the code. Update: I've put a project and binaries up, you can download at http://projectdistributor.n...