Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
07feb2006
Nine in Nine, William Taysom compares lambdas in various languages. (His own one looks very much like what I’m currently designing.)
Future build systems, Steve Loughran analyzes the existing ones. Conclusions are unclear, IMO “make” still pretty much is the way to go, but needs to be seperated from the shell and objectified in some ways (even further than rake goes).
Richard Stallman on P2P, where he says this: “I no longer endorse Creative Commons. I cannot endorse Creative Commons as a whole, because some of its licenses are unacceptable.” And I have to say, I think he’s right. Especially the “non-commerical” clauses disturb me a lot.
OpenZoep, the state-of-the-art GPL VoIP solution.
Low-level instrospection [sic] to save brain bits: Ruby object model, class hierarchy and method dispatching by Mauricio Fernandez.
Rails Guidebook is Full, and I still think the naming is confusing.
A Natural History of Mirrors on BLDG BLOG. Symmetry is the meaning of life!
Podcasting: The end of amateur hour?, I think more than 90% of all podcasts are just pointless. (Same may be true of blogs, but those at least can be searched and filtered.)
But the dealer says, “Attendez-vous, s’il vous plait,”
As the rain beats down and the cranes fly away
From Black Diamond Bay.
— Bob Dylan, Black Diamond Bay
Domain name contact information and the right to anonymity, Andy Oram says: “A long-standing debate over the use of WHOIS data is coming to a head.”
The Rails Application Visualizer produces nice diagrams from your Rails apps.
Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation by Shriram Krishnamurthi got a makeover. Already was excellent the first time I read it.
Gemeinsame Erkärung “Datenspeicherung ist inakzeptabel”, unterzeichnet von CCC, DVD, DJV, FIfF, NNM, naiin, STOP1984, FoeBuD und dem vzbv.
eWeek: ‘Exotic’ Programming Tools Go Mainstream, on LtU. Of course, once they are mainstream they aren’t exotic anymore. (more at lemonodor)
A possible fix for a slow Mail.app, Bob, Gnus runs fine where with 64k messages.
Urban Counter-Astronomy And The Return Of Night, features lovely shots.
Close your eyes, close the door,
You don’t have to worry any more.
I’ll be your baby tonight.
— Bob Dylan, I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
Scheme code Kata, long time nothing heard of Katas, no?
Editor Index at texteditors.org. Among them classics that still need to be studied by me. (To improve Emacs, of course. ;))
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