Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
25aug2006
Happy Birthday, Tux, der 25. August 1991 gilt als das offizielle Geburtsdatum von Linux.
Spoon! It’s a minimal object system with intelligible organization, and provisions for extension and reduction.
Current state of GlimR, “What’s done: rendering engine, buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, text input, theme system, loading images to textures, layouters, list widget, window widget.” Great job!
jsMath, a TiddlyWiki plugin for LaTeX formula typesetting.
Python Sprint Report, by Guido van Rossum. “This week, a number of Python developers (core and otherwise) and some Googlers got together in Mountain View and New York for a four-day Python and Python-3000 (Py3k) development sprint.”
I can be like a fire in the night
Always warm and giving off light
But there comes a time when I shine too bright
Oh, I’m just a fire in the night.
— Neil Young, Will To Love
Why you should let Web 2.0 into your hearts, by Dan Zambonini. Eww, “Web 1.0 was from the head; Web 2.0 is from the heart.”
Change propagation, on the future of Vlerq.
Connexion down, no more net on a plane.
Ruby 1.8.5 released, Mauricio Fernandez provides a changelog.
Do-It-Yourself Documentation? Research Into the Effectiveness of Mailing Lists (Part 2), by Andy Oram.
Using IPFW Rulesets with BSD Firewalls, by Dennis Olvany. Why would one want that when you can get pf?
Another PowerBook violently explodes, ouch.
Battery Exchange Program iBook G4 and PowerBook G4, not for me.
I’m a lumberjack programmer and I’m okay, there are really Java programmers that are against closures. Argh!
Lore on Cheap, Chintzy Robots, watch John Wiseman’s kitchen!
Driving fast babe I’m on my own
I’m gonna meet you on a one way road
Gonna crash, kiss the sky
Lord of love you don’t ask me why
— Spiritualized, Electricity
Google is not the leader in Ajax applications, Hari K. Gottipati made a table of his favourite Web 2.0 applications.
Solving Some Of Scoble’s Problems With XSLT, by M. David Peterson. Would be a good problem for XQuery, too.
The New Ruby-Lang, tell them what’s wrong while you can!
Jonathan Meese’s work exploits cultural taboo. Appropriating historical and media references, Meese parodies his own symbolism.