Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
25may2006
Today is Towel-Day, ” A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have.”
Towel Animals, fun stuff on Flickr. ;-)
Software ideals and history, slides by Stroustrup and Aggies.
The Curious Incident of Sun in the Night-Time, by Richard Stallman. “Sun’s Java implementation remains proprietary software, just as before.” He’s right, making proprietary software easier to redistribute is of no use.
Advanced XML validation, validate complex constraints in XML documents using XSLT and Java extensions. By Peter Heneback.
Python Education—Guido van Robot, by Jeremy Jones. Tumbleworthy alone of the title.
Baby, I can’t stay
You got to roll me
And call me the tumbling dice
— The Rolling Stones, Tumbling Dice
Passing parameters, by Dan Sugalski. As usual, everything is not as easy as it seems.
What I hate about my favorite television show, by Rasman. Bah, 24.
Desperate Petunia, how nice a lovely warn notebook is.
Extratextually Terrestial, “Given a certain acquaintance with the Metaphysics of Spirals, it is possible to represent a landscape using one single continuous line…”
Misunderstanding Foreign Keys, by Curtis Poe. “What this all boils down to is a simple rule of thumb: keep your data validation close to your data. It’s easier to maintain and is more likely to be correct.”
Hitch hitch hike baby
Across the floor
I can’t stand it no more
Now come on baby
Now get into your slide
Just ride ride ride
Little pony, ride!
— The Rolling Stones Harlem Shuffle
Befriend a F/LOSS Project on MySpace, how lame. :-P
Exceptional Objects in maths. “What frequently happens is that objects of a certain type are classified into a bunch of series with a handful of exceptional objects left over.”
biergarten statt friergarten, Lydia hat auch geniale Post-Its.
A general theory of markup: attack of the fuzzies, by Rick Jelliffe. Probably the reason many abuse XML and notice it too late, tho.
Refactoring Everything, Day 20, 21, 22, 23, by chromatic. After porting all tests, the real fun starts: Untangling the Database Code.
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