Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01mar2006
FP and AOP in JavaScript, or: “The Little Functional Language That Could”.
LaTeX Presentation Designer, bring the power of Inkscape to presentation design! Nifty tool.
Introducing Infogami, how could I miss that Aaron Swartz’s startup goes live? (It’s a customizable wiki using Markdown.)
Junior or Senior?, Brian McCallister has a good test.
Next Move in Programming, Patrick Logan notices: “35-45 years without a significant leap forward in programming languages.”
Rainy day, rain all day
ain’t no use in gettin’ uptight
just let it groove its own way
let it drain your worries away yeah
— Jimi Hendrix, Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Last month, in Ruby 1.9…, Mauricio read the ChangeLog.
Colon family in exploding toilet ordeal, “We heard a thump. Feces, urine, oil… …it went all through the house. You couldn’t breathe, your eyes would tear.”
Performance comparison of DW Data Structures: Rows versus Columns , This article discusses some of the improvements in computer technology over the last 20 years and how they should have changed the approach to the design of Data Warehouse Data Structures. In particular, it addresses the issue of which data structures make best use of disk drive technology.
Cable Management Done Right, Chris Josephes found at least a single instance of that.
Das Olf, abgeleitet vom lateinischen Wort für Geruchssinn = Olfactus, ist eine Einheit zur Bewertung der Stärke einer Geruchsquelle. Ein Olf ist die Geruchsbelastung, die von einem Normmenschen (erwachsene Person mit einem Hygienestandard von 0,7 Bädern pro Tag, 1,8 m² Hautoberfläche und bei sitzender Tätigkeit) ausgeht.
Coral is a command-line HTML renderer for OS X using WebKit.
Oracle and MySQL are a perfect match, how good PostgreSQL exists. ;-)
Howl, by Allen Ginsberg. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, …”
Dangerous advertising, gimme gimme!
Fl.ower, or how Ma.gnolia was designed. Didn’t know Eric Meyer did the CSS.
And the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red
as our feet find the sand
and the sea is straight ahad
straight up ahead
— Jimi Hendrix, 1983… (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
Glancing ETech 2004, about a very cool small app Matt wrote, but somehow never cought on.
Interconnected is Matt Webb’s blog. I spent the last two days trying to recall the URL.
Creating Passionate Users is a classic weblog, and must-read. Don’t know why I never mentioned it here before. (Oops, I did last April. Never mind, there was lots of new content in the meantime.)
“I told u I was hardcore.”, Those were the last coherent words Brandon Vedas, 21, typed into the computer in his Phoenix bedroom as he showed off for Internet pals watching on a Web cam by swallowing more and more prescription drugs.
Get to the Point: Open Source Speech to Text, Patrick is being very funny today: “I don’t have the time to listen to 30 minutes of conversation to see if this comes up. So I am on the lookout for a relatively easy to use and free or open source speech to text conversions.”
Rants Preview, for Eliot Kimber’s blog about XML. And I agree with every point.
Writing about software: what documentation does a product need?, Bob DuCharme makes a list. Now, who writes it?
New Intel Mac Minis Use Shared Memory for Video, just ewww. Now you need two gig to start working. }:-)
DITA Case Study: The Joseph Smith Papers Project, very impressive project on state-of-the-art markup.
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