Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
25mar2006
Tonic is an open source less is more, RESTful Web application development and Web site management PHP script designed to do things “the right way”, where resources are king and the framework gets out of the way and leaves the developer to get on with it.
eBay of the day: Megaphone Helmets, WJW. Wanna have!
Beautiful code, test-first, by Jamis Buck on SvN.
Graphing Directories with Flash and CL, hmm, I once wrote code to make postscript that looks like that…
Don’t hold on
go get strong
well don’t you know
there is no modern romance
— Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modern Romance
Copying the sunlight, wo kommste du here meine Sonnelicht?
Refactoring Without Tests, by Adrian Sutton. How to be careful.
Niagara vs ftp.heanet.ie Showdown, by Colm MacCárthaigh. Most comprehensive Niagara T2000 benchmark I found so far.
It makes me shudder to realize that only about 1% of Rails programmers actually understand programming. — Hampton, ruby-talk:185724
Quine’s Paradox, by John Cowan. Tells why logic is useless for daily life.
The Church should be moving away from Windows in preparation for the late arrival of Windows Vista, but it will work out for the atheists too.
Where (if anywhere) are the Boundaries of the Open Source Concept?, by Andy Updegrove.
Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program. It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide number of protocols, send them on the wire, capture them, match requests and replies, and much more. Written in Python.
Paul A. Flaherty died at age 42. He was the inventor of Altavista. Oh, the old times…
An Exercise in Metaprogramming with Ruby, by Hal Fulton.
Light-Transmitting Concrete, very cool.
It’s a bad time to start a company, Caterina Fake says.
The Most Important Algorithms, I somehow feel there is something missing… where is Boyer-Moore or Quicksort?
Hunting Squirrel: The Other White Meat, by t1ber. Thanks, but no thanks.
FpgaC compiles a subset of the C language to net lists which can be imported into an FPGA vendors tool chains.
Photographs that lie, “photoshopping” in 1989.
I can’t see the end of me
my whole expanse I cannot see
I formulate infinity
and store it deep inside of me
— Meat Puppets, Oh Me
Moore’s Law is Crap, Steve Yegge says. “To me, mainstream languages have failed because they’re still fundamentally serial, fundamentally early von Neumann, fundamentally single-box languages.” Required reading.
Resort Hotels of the Stratospheric Future!, ya got a nice view up there.
6 is a really special number. Read why.
What I Learned About Project Development, by Arkaein. “Don’t create interesting but ultimately irrelevant side projects that lead your team astray from the true goals of the project.” Big fun, though.