Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
07oct2005
MySQL wants to be Ikea of the database market, this is the worst metaphor I read in a long time.
100.000 Jahre Sex: Die Lüste im Wandel der Zeit, wer dann noch nicht gekommen ist, wird es wohl nie tun. :-P
The use of force, mental torture, threats, insults, or exposure to unpleasant and inhumane treatment of any kind is prohibited by law and is neither authorized nor condoned by the US Government. — Army Field Manual
McCain passes amendment to end torture of detainees; Bush threatens veto by mcc.
Company-Wide Instant Messaging with Jabberd by Oktay Altunergil. For a start-up or smaller companies I’d use an IRCd, though.
Pragmatic Ajax is a Beta Book, great news if you are interested in this stuff.
She says, “Why baby, why baby, why baby, why
Have you turned your back on love?
You had so many chances
Why have you let ‘em all go by?”
— Dan Bern, Estelle
Pyro is short for PYthon Remote Objects. It is an advanced and powerful Distributed Object Technology system written entirely in Python, that is designed to be very easy to use. Sounds a lot like Drb.
Scalability, a thread on LtU about why projects in LFM scale better. “Most programmers are just Java monkeys; it arises from the fact that there are more people than can competently (by our standards) program who are willing to take the salaries that the industry offers.”
Practical Common Lisp colophon available by Peter Seibel. There ain’t nothing better than home-brew publishing solutions.
Web 2.0 Day 2: Less is a competitive advantage by Robert Kaye. I feel confirmed in my minimalism.
Web 2.0 Day 1: Afternoon sessions, Robert Kaye has good coverage.
Gtk+ natively on Mac OS X, it now runs partly without X11.
Practical Development Environments by Matthew B. Doar. Sounds like an useful book by O’Reilly.
John Henry is a comprehensive framework and web-based IDE for rapidly developing Ruby on Rails apps.
You changed my life
Came along in a time of strife
In hunger and need
You made my heart bleed
You changed my life
You changed my life
— Bob Dylan, You Changed My Life
I’m Floridian; Don’t Fuck With Me by loteck. It’s attacking us! “They will place one of these ass-flowers into the barrel of the gun while taking a hit off the bong and singing some Bob Dylan song. Oh, by the way, Bob Dylan fans are the worst. Who could possibly be able to enjoy listening to that no-talent hack and his nasally voice and simplistic guitar riffs?” Dude, it rocks and now get out of my way. Boom.
Nessus3 Will Not be Released Under the GPL by Nitesh Dhanjani. I can see the reason, but it isn’t a good move IMO.
I highly recommend coming from Ruby when you use Ruby. It makes everything much more consistent, and ultimately more enjoyable :-) — David A. Black
Distributing Rails Applications, a tutorial by Erik Veenstra. Especially explains how to use RubyScript2Exe.