At long last presenting another update on particle nodes. Had to split into two parts, make sure you watch the second part as well.

The code can be found here: https://www.gitorious.org/blender-paged-particles/new_particles/commits/particle_nodes

Here are the two example files from the video (NOTE: as i currently don't care about backward compatibility for my own stuff, these are likely to break sooner or later!) http://www.pasteall.org/blend/13307 http://www.pasteall.org/blend/13308