Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
13jul2006
Looking back at Hotwired, by Jeffrey Veen. Do you remember the times when the default background color was grey?
EnterpriseRails, at Martin Fowlers bliki. “I confess I like this opinionated attitude.”
Writers’ Workshops & The Work of Making Things (PDF), a book by Richard P. Gabriel I haven’t yet read.
Encoding Information Flow in Haskell, by Peng Li and Steve Zdancewic. “This paper presents an embedded security sublanguage for enforcing information-flow policies in the standard Haskell programming language.”
Event-Based Programming without Inversion of Control, by Philipp Haller and Martin Odersky. “[W]e were able to define all essential operations of Erlang’s actor-based process model in the Scala library.”
Little drops of rain whisper of the pain,
tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
My love is strong, with you there is no wrong,
together we shall go until we die. My, my, my.
An inspiration is what you are to me, inspiration, look… see.
— Led Zeppelin, Thank You
CSpace provides a platform for secure, decentralized, user-to-user communication over the internet. Sounds neat, but I’d prefer IPv6 and SSL…
The camel has two humps, or why teaching programming can be impossible, by Saeed Dehnadi and Richard Bornat. Must, must read.
Unexpected Complexity of Simple Games, John Wiseman about SOCOM 3: “When I was playing the game a lot and was at the height of my abilities, it seemed to be more like rock-paper-scissors or chess than a twitchy shooter.”
Iannis Xenakis and Formalized Music, “Xenakis created a number of musical events and stochastically assigned these to cells in the grid.”
Architectural Tetris, yay. “They almost look like proteins — enzymes of European domesticity.”
Practices of an Agile Developer, PerlCast with /\ndy Hunt.
10/10 review of Ruby for Rails on Slashdot, gratulation, dblack.
Tell you, pretty baby, you love to mess me ‘round.
I’m gonna give you lovin’, baby, gonna move you out o’ town.
Bring it on home…
— Led Zeppelin, Bring It On Home
The Camping Server, a small Ruby appplication server.
Family Tree of Schema Languages for Markup Languages (2006), by Rick Jelliffe. If there’s still a bit of space on your wall…
Finally, an O’Reilly XQuery book, Simon St. Laurent proclaims. Now we’d just need a free, non-java XQuery implementation…
And death shall have no dominion, words and voice by Dylan Thomas.