Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
09aug2006
what came out of my ear, analyzing ear wax. WJW.
40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted, too bad for them.
Qt Opensource with Microsoft Visual C++, evil.
Faith Based Programming, by clambake. “There have been many “faith based” initiatives popping up in various aspects of American life. One area, however, that seems to be missing out is one that is a part of my every day life: software development.” Yay.
An act of love, when Michael Graham’s wife Elizabeth was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, she made up her mind to die before she became completely immobile… Scary.
For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair
— Scott McKenzie, San Francisco
The Rails Edge, a set of small, regional Rails conferences. Jim Weirich writes about it too.
My Rails Blob, awesome.
LIM and Nanoweb, by Greg Nelson. A literate program written in a very interesting language. Good read.
CellML allows scientists to share models even if they are using different model-building software. The purpose of CellML is to store and exchange computer-based mathematical models.
Forgotten C function of the day: strfmon(3),
convert monetary value to string.
10 Mile Spiral, “A Gateway to Las Vegas,” by Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch.
The Internals of the Monet Database, slides by Bogdan Dumitriu and Lee Provoost.
MonetDB/XQuery provides a full-fledged XQuery implementation, which adheres to all the typing rules prescribed in the W3C standard. It is constructed as an independent compiler, producing code for the MonetDB server backend. Is this what I’ve been looking for? Yes; an XQuery implementation that merely depends on libxml2 and a C compiler.
Summer at the Seaside, Daniel H. Steinberg interviews Avi Bryant.
Yes, ‘n’ how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
— Bob Dylan, Blowin’ In The Wind
The Amazing Trading Appliance, Joel Reymont makes my day: “Last but not least, I’ll try to avoid forward-looking statements.”
PAX: A storage model to bridge the processor/memory speed gap, Joel Reymont writes about it.
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