Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

31oct2005

Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming, big time. “The trick, said Hansson, is to “slaughter the holy cows,” the well-understood ideas of computer science that dictate how programmers work.”

Ghoul Quartet by Yano

Lispnik Logo, not bad, not bad.

Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career by Tim Bray. One wonders if tumblelogging helps too. ;-)

The 50 Most Embarrassing Ways to Die, I love such lists.

Got a little girl, her name is Ball,
Give a little bit, she took it all.
I said step it up and go-Yeah, man.
Can’t stand pat, swear you gotta step it up and go.
— Bob Dylan, Step It Up And Go

OPML validators, comparision by Sam Ruby. “Interesting” results.

Wow… a real saving, Ian Holsman buys cheap parmesan.

Coding Slave, the survey. Didn’t do that one. :P

SMB2 Protocol—what is a Symbolic Link?, Vista gets symlinks. BTDT.

Or do you want me to turn you on? — Yukihiro Matsumoto, out of context

What’s in it for me? Über den Nutzen von Weblogs für Wissensarbeiter.

Big Visible Charts, or BVC’s, are used to communicate information on a project. The agile development community has promoted their use as an effective feedback mechanism for a team of software developers.

Jeder Geschlechtsakt war ein Schlag in die Fratze der Bourgeoisie. — Der springende Punkt

Al Zimmermann’s Programming Contests: Circle Packing, “Pack n non-overlapping circles with radii from 1 to N into as small a circle as possible.”

Monster und Blondinen, jetzt sind wir wieder mal schlauer.

Singing Skeletons by teasel

When you wake up in the mornin’, baby, look inside your mirror.
You know I won’t be next to you, you know I won’t be near.
I’d just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear
As someone who has had you on his mind.
— Bob Dylan, Mama, You Been On My Mind

Alloy: A Simple Structural Modeling Language Based on First-Order Logic, nice stuff to twist your mind.

EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface.

TeSLa, a Test Specific Language for Ruby, this one sounds promising.