Anarchaia

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

09jan2006

A Ruby challenge: defuse the code bomb and test your Ruby fu, Mauricio Fernandez made a most nifty challenge. Try it!

Revisiting the File-Sharing Paragraph, _why found an “old” snippet of code.

Slashdot is Going out of Style in 2006, Jeremy Zawodny predicts. With digg it’s only getting worse…

Tree! by doopokko

The Charming Ruby Compiler (CRC) is a thesis project at the Computer Science Department at Chalmers University of Technology. It’s goal is to create a proof of concept compiler from Ruby to C–.

Richard Greenblatt: Molecular Biology and the Origin of Life on Earth, Lispmeister has a video of ILC2002.

DragonFlyBSD 1.4 released, now using pkgsrc.

And take me down to the harbor now
Grapes of the summer are low on the bough
Ghosts of my history will follow me there
And the winds of the old days will blow through my hair
— Joan Baez, Winds Of The Old Days

Happy Birthday, Joan Baez! “That’s all nonviolence is—organized love.” Dark As A Dungeon.

Scheme 2005 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming.

On buying a laptop by Jonathan Gennick. Cute.

A “Quick Introduction to Rails” Talk, Jim Weirich put his excellent slides online.

Basecamp, sans browser…?, that idea turns me on, I’m serious.

But because of who I am, it doesn’t take very much before the blogosphere erupts in craziness. — James Gosling, Is Java getting better with age?

The 7 New Wonders of the World on BLDGBLOG.

The extreme moment for the fall by !.keesssss.!

Let them wash away
All those yesterdays
All those yesterdays
All those paper plates
— Pearl Jam, All Those Yesterdays

Vortrag: Ruby on Rails bei Lehmanns in Berlin am 23. Januar.

Java theory and practice: Garbage collection in the HotSpot JVM , from 2003 but still pretty accurate, I think.