Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
03sep2006
rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems.
The Setting for DSL Development, Program, Model, Artifacts, Actions.
CouchDb has been released, under GPL.
Half-Wright, using the Half-Life engine for architecture.
Geometric Algebra for Free!, isn’t Haskell great?
Improved Perl6 Documentation available, useful.
Author Interviews: Hal Fulton – The Ruby Way, interview by Pat Eyler. “The newsgroup hadn’t been approved yet. The mailing list had perhaps 10-20 messages a day if I recall correctly.”, those were the days.
A 1.6km-long carbon ribbon in the skies above Arizona, “step into a small airtight box, push a button marked ‘space’, and ride an elevator all the way up a cable reaching far into the sky.” Hmm hmm.
Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’
Through the world mysterious and vague
Heart burnin’, still yearnin’
Walkin’ through the cities of the plague.
— Bob Dylan, Ain’t Talkin’
Complicating simplicity, Matt Linderman cites: “An investigation of the essence of simplicity must necessarily get involved with the psychology of human-machine interaction.”
MasterView is a Ruby/Rails optimized HTML/XHTML friendly template engine. It is designed to use the full power and productivity of rails including layouts, partials, and rails html helpers while still being editable/styleable in a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
An Edwards-Venn diagram with 6 sets, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The Most Important C++ People… Ever, chosen by Scott Meyers.
Alternative Energy Sources, by agavero. “Even common hay bales are being used in construction of buildings for insulation.”
Interviewing Gregory Brown, interview by Pat Eyler.
Roles: Composable Units of Object Behavior, by chromatic. “A role is a named collection of behavior – a set of methods identified by a unique name.”
Unfolding the Web, by Bruno Pedro. Look at the last DabbleDb video, and answer the questions…
IEDs at FOO Camp. “If there’s a man-in-the-middle attack on a teledildonic session, is that rape?”
Shinto ritual for pruning our Shii Tree, by Joi Ito. “The priest first called the spirits with a chant and opened the sake and other offerings. We then did a ritual where we were blessed, the tree was blessed and we paid our respects to the spirits.”
Bob on Bob, on interviewing Bob Dylan. “Mr. Dylan, how would you define folk music?” — “As a constitutional re-play of mass production.”
Digg into Dabble, new screencast about data import and integration. Very impressive.
The Sandbox is Loading Gems and Acting Less Freaky, more on why’s sandbox.
Review of e-slate voting systems, by aphrael. “At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well.”
Apache Abdera is a project to build a functionally-complete, high-performance implementation of the IETF Atom Syndication Format (RFC 4287) and Atom Publishing Protocol (in-progress) specifications.
I wanna be with you in paradise
And it seems so unfair
I can’t go to paradise no more
I killed a man back there
— Bob Dylan, Spirit On The Water
DSLs Rehashed Again, by Mike Loukides. “What makes a working language?” Also relevant to sublanguages, of course.
The U.S. Army Permafrost Tunnel, “dug entirely within frozen ground on the north slope of Hill 456 near Fox, Alaska.” Chilly.
Nuclear Ambition, “the cooling towers of nuclear power plants could be evolutionary hotspots for new respiratory diseases.”
The creator of Ruby is Japanese, the Rubist magazine is in Japanese, and a great many users of Ruby are Japanese, yet I can’t understand a word they are saying. That’s not their fault. It’s my French teacher’s fault. — Dr Nic, Spy on the Japanese Rubists
meineTapete.de ist ein Münchner Unternehmen, das sich auf die Gestaltung und das Bedrucken von Tapeten und Vertikallamellen konzentriert.
upstart is a replacement for the init daemon, the process spawned by the kernel that is responsible for starting, supervising and stopping all other processes on the system. Now used in Ubuntu. Sounds nice.
The PracTeX Journal, issue 2006/03. Includes articles on KOMA-Script, memoir and ConTeXt.
Snakebite is a stand-alone BitTorrent server that works on both Windows and Linux, written in Python.
Introducing ErlyDB: The Erlang Twist on Database Abstraction, by Yariv Sadan. Looks good.
Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer, “I constantly find myself wanting to use idioms from these languages, or noticing how much less code I’d be able to write if I was using one of these languages…”
The Extreme Sport of Origami, very complex paper art.
Evangelist drowns trying to walk on water, Darwin, I hear your calling.
We tell ourselves so many many many lies,
We’re not pawns in any game, we’re not tools of bigger men,
There’s only one who can really move us all,
It all looks fine to the naked eye,
But it don’t really happen that way at all.
— The Who, Naked Eye
Page-crunch allows to elaborate documents with several sheets on the same page, conveniently resizing and rotating the original sheets, or to output a book ready to print from source Postscript or PDF files.
Do-It-Yourself Documentation? Research Into the Effectiveness of Mailing Lists (Part 3), by Andy Oram. “How much noise is on the lists?”
Der Staat wird nicht “abgeschafft”, er stirbt ab. — Friedrich Engels
Daikon is an implementation of dynamic detection of likely invariants; that is, the Daikon invariant detector reports likely program invariants.
Lightweight Static Capabilitites, this time with slides.
Now with perly goodness, Tornado 0.04 has been released.
Dwelling in an age of aeromodernism, nice against rain too?
RubyConf*MI in review, by Pat Eyler. Reminds me a bit of Euruko: “It was a well attended conference. There were 58 people there, including the organizers and speakers (an overlapping group).”
Foozles: a retrospective (PDF), or: Anatomy of a programming languages fad, by Todd Veldhuizen. Great, sad and true at once.
Using Rake as a Library, updated, ah neat, it seems FileList is niftier than find.rb.
Why Processes Scale Better Than Threads, “Scalability is not performance. Scalability is getting from small to big (and back).”
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