Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
11may2006
SimpleFold 0.4.0 and visual comparison of (vim) folding methods, Mauricio Fernandez is productive today. ;-)
Why XHTML Can Save Internet Explorer, by Kurt Cagle. “What this implies is that development of XHTML will necessitate the creation of an entirely new rendering module with the IE framework, one that is completely separated from the HTML renderer.” At least, there is hope.
Ebby is an implementation of the Obby protocol in Emacs Lisp. Obby is a free collaborative editing protocol supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat.
Shangri-La Diet, by Ben Hyde. Highly interesting way to lose weight: “But for me I was particularly taken to see a diet based on such an extremely simple confident application of behaviorism.”
ftpsync, FTP sync or copy tool. Synchronize a remote arborescence from a local directory by using FTP.
SUSE Linux 10.1 is available for download now! Nice.
Debian packages release names, ever heard of “The “Lesbian Seagull” release.”?
I’m living with war in my heart
I’m living with war in my heart and my mind
I’m living with war right now
— Neil Young, Living With War
Don’t Panic, Harzigen Glühstrumpf, Jörg.
New ‘Anti-Abortion Pill’ Kills Mother, Leaves Fetus Alive, “Pfizer, manufacturer of UR-86—dubbed the “last-morning-ever pill”—said the drug is intended only for occasions when the mind-set or politics of the mother threaten the life of the fetus.” I love The Onion!
EvaluatingRuby by Ilias^WMartin Fowler. *scnr* “But overall I’m increasingly positive about using Ruby for serious work where speed, responsiveness, and productivity are important.”
Silence Becomes You, directed by Stephanie Sinclaire. It sounded really good, but: “Unfortunately for ‘Silence Becomes You’ any negative comments are overwhelmingly justified!”
Ubuntu Dapper Flight 7 Mini-Review, by Jeremy Jones. Great news: “For the first time ever, both the installed suspend and hibernate routines work with my laptop.”
Metrics for XML Projects #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, by Rick Jelliffe. What about “counting useless angle brackets”? ;-)
My life as a manga hero, by Rick Jelliffe. I love the web…
Intent is a Ruby library for expressing ‘tests’ in terms of Intents that can be checked for consistency. API rather similar to RSpec.
The Foo who fell from fame, by eavier. “The interesting news is that UFO Evidence reports that public opinion polls from the last 50 years, and from multiple different countries, report that 50% of the population still believes in the reality of UFOs; and 5% of the population has seen one.”
Book Review: C in a Nutshell, reviewed by Ed Schaefer. “If you are looking for a general reference covering the standard “C” library and C99, then this text is your new best friend.”
How to Love a Framework You’ve Never Used, by Curtis Poe. Also stabs COBOL.
ODF: Never Mind … We Have the Plugin, by Kurt Cagle. “What this means is that anyone using any supported and most legacy versions of Office will be able shortly to work with ODF documents in Office, will be able to save out to ODF and will be able to accurately see any ODF content in the same way that they could via Open Office 2.0.” Yay.
ExplorerCanvas: Interactive Web Apps, by Dave Hoover. “I will demonstrate how to handle user input to allow your canvas applications to reach the next level of interactivity.” If it’s fast and portable, likely to be the next big thing.
The three dimensions of proofs, “We prove that the free 3-category generated by this 3-polygraph describes the proofs of classical propositional logic modulo structural bureaucracy.” Aha.
Refactoring Everything, Day 17, by chromatic. “Today’s task is to continue porting the nodegroup tests. This is a great way to test the inheritance of test methods.”
[sangría], Lydia war auf Gran Canaria und hat Geschichten und Bilder mitgebracht.
Bonnie’s Bookstore, by Joel Reymont. “I’m three weeks away from 32, have been writing code since 16, and yet I feel like I have not done anything exciting.”
The 8 phases of goatse, safe for work.
Long-term backup, Mark Pilgrim got a problem we’ll all have pretty soon too: “How do you back up 100 GB of data per year for 50 years?”
Triads of bidding, by Cameron Moll. “Recognize how budget, scope, and timeline determine your level of interest in taking on a project.”
Mercurial v0.9 released!, IMO the most promising version control system today.
Writing a pure functional lazy call-by-name compiler, reminds me a bit of the 90-minute Scheme compiler.
RE: mapping the planet, BLDG BLOG has maps of the number of aircraft passengers, container ports, refugee origin, net immigration, expected population and toy import/export.
The organ bank and the bubble, David Blaine is an idiot. :-P But it looks cool, indeed.
Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he’s satisfied
Is when he’s on a drunk
— The Animals, House Of The Rising Sun
Rethinking the Benchmark module, Mauricio Fernandez wrote a statistically more senseful Benchmark module.
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam… on the RubyGarden wiki and what can be done against it. By Jim Weirich. Good ideas and nice implementation.
The Least Surprised #12: The Matzster of My Domain, “DSLs are off the hook, people!”
Google Trends, see what the world is searching for. Could be nice for the Futurometer, too…
Announcing RailsConf Europe, Ruby Central and Skills Matter are pleased to announce the First European Rails Conference. The conference will be held in London on September 14-15, 2006.
More on building a rocket ship, by Andy Hunt. “As much as we complain about software projects that go bad, at least we generally don’t end up in charred ruins at the bottom of the lake.”
Front Deutscher Äpfel, Nationale Initiative gegen die Überfremdung des deutschen Obstbestandes und gegen faul herumlungerndes Fallobst. Tolle Idee.
Flood Maps, let the sea level raise! (I feel pretty safe.)
Cylinder Mirror Optical Illusion, just awesome.
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