Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
23apr2006
SLIME: The Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs, version 2.0 is released.
High DPI Web Sites, making a pixel more than a pixel is a bit nuts, but interesting.
Our Godless Constitution, by Brooke Allen. “Our Constitution makes no mention whatever of God.” Heck, even the preface of the German one does…
Estimating Similarity, by Geert Bosch. “Basically, compute a short (256-bit) fingerprint for each file, such that the Hamming distance between two fingerprints is a measure for their similarity.” I love such stuff.
Automatic ‘screen’ on remote logins, nifty.
The price of correct programming is eternal vigilance. — Rob Pike
22C3 Videos verfügbar, Die knapp 150 Stunden Mitschnitte werden unter einer freien Creative Commons Lizenz vertrieben. Weitere Formate und Audioaufzeichnungen folgen.
XML in XML, by Rick Jelliffe. Meta-yay!
A simple (very much in progress) tutorial for RSpec by David Chelimsky. The rest of the site got a big makeover too.
She needs to be able to sing harmony
She needs to be able to drive 400 miles a day
She needs to be able to average 125 in bowling
Who wants to marry a folksinger?
— Dan Bern, Darva Conger
The Gemcutter’s Workshop: Canada on Rails, by Pat Eyler. “Recapping another busy couple of weeks in Ruby land as well as the first international Rails conference.”
Box-A-Web allows you to grab fragments of your choice from the web pages on the left and merge them together into the one personal page on the right in less than a few minutes.
Logic Systems Axiom List, nice.
MTASC is the first ActionScript 2 Open Source free compiler.
As Promised, Redmond Delivers, I’d have never expected that: “If the data can be represented as well formed xml, then the xml should be appended as a child node of the <lc:item< element.”
It’s a shame to awaken, world aflame
What does it mean when the war has taken over?
It’s the same every day in a hell man-made
What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?
— Pearl Jam, World Wide Suicide
Evolutionary Psychology, Memes and the Origin of War, by hkhenson.
Burrs and Thistles, by zombie HollyHopDrive. “Kate and I spent an entire summer deconstructing our relationship.”
Fast Times at Phillips 66: The Undercover Cop, by osm. “One year, Vince and I went to a Halloween party dressed as Jesus and the Virgin Mary.”
DRb an Introduction and Overview, slides by Eric Hodel.
Test Driven Design for Ruby and Rails, slides of Ryan Davis’ SDForum presentation.