Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
24sep2007
Announcing xUnit.net, a small revolutionary shakeup in the xUnit territory.
Pizza Inversion: a Pattern for Efficient Resource Consumption, by Brad Appleton. “Pizza Inversion may sound like a cheesy name for a pattern, but it describes a recurring solution to a problem that is of fundamental significance to most software developers I know. I find myself using it much more frequently than anything in the now famous Design Patterns book[1]. Keep reading and I’m certain you’ll soon find yourself agreeing with me.”
Let me eat when I’m hungry
Let me drink when I’m dry
Dollars when I’m hard up
Religion when I die
— Bob Dylan, Moonshiner
Inhaling 9/11, “On the flight over to Chicago last week I read an intense and frightening article in Discover about the wide range of post-9/11 illnesses that have begun to develop in New York City.”
SparseCheck, A Logic Programming Library for Test-Data Generation.
Mjt is an HTML templating engine that runs entirely in a web browser. It was built for the Freebase service, but it can be used for many other web services. It is distributed as open source.
Tact Filters, “All people have a “tact filter”, which applies tact in one direction to everything that passes through it.”
These be seven curses on a judge so cruel:
That one doctor will not save him,
That two healers will not heal him,
That three eyes will not see him.
That four ears will not hear him,
That five walls will not hide him,
That six diggers will not bury him
And that seven deaths shall never kill him.
— Bob Dylan, Seven Curses
Treedolist, “This is a hierarchical organiser for tasks, notes, lists, weblinks and RSS feeds. You can categorise items, drag and drop stuff, share branches of your tree and more.” (May crash old Safaris.)
The Dunning-Kruger effect is the phenomenon wherein people who have little knowledge think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge.