Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
24jul2006
Proceedings of the GCC Developers’ Summit 2006 (PDF).
Hände weg!, Nóirín Plunkett on being touched (post in English).
Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP APIs, caching, replication, and a web administration interface.
Sometimes, sometimes I see much more than is good for me
The first thing that’s on my mind the last place I’d look each time
Sometimes, I slip inside the imagery and
The last thing that’s on my mind’s
The first thing I’ll do each time
— Beth Orton, Paris Train
Internet ‘96, “I decided to peruse the Wayback Machine’s earliest archives to see what the internet looked like in 1996…” Nostalgic.
Gamma formalism and other things related to the chemical reaction metaphor. Highly interesting.
RLisp: Lisp naturally embedded in Ruby, that’s pretty cool. Source is available too. But dynamic scope? Yeech!
Concoqtion: Mixing Indexed Types and Hindley-Milner Type Inference, “This paper addresses the question of how to extend OCaml’s Hindley-Milner type system with types indexed by logical propositions and proofs of the Coq theorem prover, thereby providing an expressive and extensible mechanism for ensuring fine-grained program invariants.” Totally whoa.
It’s a concrete jungle, stones and tears
Quickly becoming what everybody fears
It ain’t just color the message keeps cuttin’ clear
There’s a fire in the western world
— Dead Moon, Fire In The Western World
My Julieclipse, quoting her last writing. That has to be the most beautiful vision of future I ever read… makes me cry.
Ruby Cookbook, by Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richardson. “From data structures and algorithms, to integration with cutting-edge technologies, the Ruby Cookbook has something for every programmer. When you need to solve a problem, don’t reinvent the wheel: look it up in the Cookbook.” Now shipping.
Rails and the Legacy World, by PragDave. “[T]here are a whole group of people out there who could be using Rails now but aren’t, simply because they don’t know that it is up to their challenges.