Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
31aug2005
Goovite, fast, free, easy invites, with no registration required. You gotta like that!
Ruby on Rails: An Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson by Edd Dumbill.
Wahl-O-Mat Bundestagswahl 2005 von der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Mein Ergebnis hat mich eher überrascht, so viel dazu.
I’ve never felt this healthy before
I’ve never wanted something rational
I am aware now
I am aware now
— Alanis Morissette, Hand Over Feet
BarCamp wiki, the free “alternative” to Foo Camp.
SlidesAndStuff directly at the FOO 2005 wiki.
Slides from Foo Camp talk for Mercurial and others by Bryan O’Sullivan. Nice overview about the state of version control.
Trac + darcs = I’m in heaven, that sounds awfully complex.
People’s lives changed radically and rapidly, not because of printing machinery, but because of what that invention made it possible for people to know. — Howard Rheingold, Tools for Thought
Don’t Buy Harry Potter Books, RMS says. “Even better, read something else–there are plenty of other books just as good, or (dare one suggest) even better.”
Richard M. Stallman now has an RSS feed for his political notes.
Diamonds are not forever, Physicists in Germany have created a material that is harder than diamond. Are they still a girl’s best friend?
Goo activity, according to this mail, I hope Goo is not dead yet. (Oh please, please.)
Nun also doch: die Rudi-Dutschke-Straße, super. Und sie grenzt an den Axel-Springer-Verlag. :-)
The Salisbury Project is an archive of color photographs designed for teachers, students and scholars to supplement visually books and articles published on the cathedral and town of Salisbury. Nice!
wmii is a dynamic window manager for X11, which is highly customizable and usable with keyboard and mouse. It is highly modularized and uses an inter-process communication interface which is oriented on the 9p protocol of plan9.
Laziness Without All the Hard Work, from a functional programming point of view.
How to Write a Hack for O’Reilly by Brian Sawyer. And I could bet I saw “Hacks” that didn’t qualify as those in the bookshelf.
Hobix and Rails Wed Unceremoniously Off Behind the Podomatic, Hobix and Rails is an interesting mix.
YAML is Parseltongue, Python got a proper Syck binding, among the comments: “Or is this the version that doesn’t segfault?”