Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
14nov2005
No, logo stickers aren’t awesome, but brand “theft” is not theft when I decide, Jason.
Homemade Flame Thrower, building a PVC flamethrower. WJW.
State of the Art: Where we are with the Ext3 filesystem, slides from 2005 Ottawa Linux Symposium.
A Riemann surface is a surface-like configuration that covers the complex plane with several, and in general infinitely many, “sheets.”
Ruby Forum, now providing a gateway to ruby-talk.
The tcltest package provides the user with utility tools for writing and running tests in the Tcl test suite. It can also be used to create a customized test harness for an extension.
Handle synchronous events from shared objects in Linux, how to use design patterns for more effective use of shared memory.
Windows were shakin’ all night in my dreams
Everything was exactly the way that it seems
Woke up this morning and I looked at the same old page
Same ol’ rat race
Life in the same ol’ cage.
— Bob Dylan, Highlands
Agile Work Axioms, Mishkin Berteig says: “I am trying to formulate a really simple way of describing the underlying assumptions and beliefs about life, the universe and everything that are driving the success of Agile.” See also www.agileaxioms.com.
A Tutorial on Cutting Up a Breakbeat Using a Tracker by conner_bw. Somehow that got out of fashion…
Tall buildings, Jason Kottke compares Chinese skyscapers.
Learn Lisp From MIT–for Free!!!, Christopher Roach discovers SICP and OCW.
BoBs 2005: Jury protestiert gegen Zensur eines chinesischen Weblogs, der Schockwellenreiter fasst zusammen.
Made in Germany ist ein Qualitätssiegel, das auf vielen Produkten aus Deutschland deren Herkunft angibt.
Well the future for me is already a thing of the past
You were my first love and you will be my last
— Bob Dylan, Bye and Bye
Catalyst will make web development something you had never expected it to be: Fun, rewarding and quick. Still feels too perly.
Startups and the State of IT by Kurt Cagle. Picks up Graham’s latest essay.
$30,750.00 for Speaker Cables and Other Stories, or How to Get A Well-Oiled Snake by The Fat Man. Awesome.
There’s a wealth of knowledge and experience in the communities around “dead” languages like Smalltalk, Lisp, and Forth, and it always saddens me to see so many mainstream developers taking years to make mistakes and discoveries they could have read about in an afternoon of browsing old papers or a few mailing list archives. — Avi Bryant
Beyond Java, Avi Bryant comments on Bruce Tate’s book.
Zen and the Art of Temperature Maintenance, “Scientists at the Iwate University in Japan have shown that the skunk cabbage […] can maintain its own internal temperature at about 20 degrees Celsius, even on a freezing day.”
Too compact, by Jean-Claude Wippler. “In hindsight, it looks like Metakit is trying too hard to pick the absolutely minimal representation.”
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