Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

13may2006

FLAIM is a FLexible Adaptable Information Management database engine for traditional as well as volatile and complex information. Even though FLAIM provides many traditional database features (e.g., transactions, recovery, reliability, scalability), it was conceived with a broader view toward the greater flexibility and adaptability that is offered by an XML data model.

Interviewing Web Developers, 20 Good Questions to Ask. Among them: “How comfortable are you with writing HTML entirely by hand?” Oh my.

Nineteenth-Century Granary Near Cullen, Coast of Moray, Scotland, April 2006 by Dr John2005

Best One I Have Ever Seen, what a haircut. WJW.

ARC is a lightweight, SPARQL-enabled RDF system for mainstream Web projects. It is written in PHP and has been optimized for shared (or otherwise performance- or privilege-limited) Web environments.

Jumbo Lambda Calculus, by Paul Blain Levy. “To remedy this, we define a “jumbo lambda-calculus” that fuses the traditional connectives together into more general ones, so-called “jumbo connectives”. We provide two pieces of evidence for our thesis that the jumbo formulation is advantageous.”

Delia, oh Delia, how can it be?
You loved all them rounders, never did love me.
All the friends I ever had are gone.
— Bob Dylan, Delia

Distribution of processing, Dan Sugalski writes the first distributed VM ever?

Refactoring Everything, Day 18, by chromatic. “Today’s task is finish porting the nodegroup tests.”

Microtemplates are templates specified in plain HTML syntax that overload the CSS class attribute to indicate how to display data. Neat idea, would be cool for Ruby too.

DSC_0204 by drgonzo

xkcd, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Gotta love it, highly geeky.

RspecOnRails mashes Rails’ Test::Unit::TestCase fixture loading with RSpec.

And I’ll tell and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’
But I’ll know my songs well before I start singin’
— Bob Dylan, Hard Rain

Revitalize old web applications with server-side mashup techniques, by Rick Jelliffe. Or: how to move uglyness to the server? ;-)

Thought in case they’re listening, by Andrew Dupont. This is the American spirit. ;-)

The Tumblelist “now” features feeds. Great way to stay uptodate.

The total horizon, fantastic shots by Shintaro Sato.