Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
05sep2006
How to read the information on a beer can in Japan. Very useful.
Announcing Tesseract OCR, Google open-sources OCR software. Probably useful, gotta check that out. Licensed under the Apache License.
Is a computer like a bicycle for the mind?, worth alone reading for the Alan Kay quotes.
DiamondWiki, an experimental Wiki clone with an emphasis on metadata and faceted navigation. A simple but useful idea, shame I didn’t come up with it. :) (Wikipedia needs this!)
Well they call me the hunter, that’s my name.
They call me the hunter, that’s how I got my fame.
Ain’t no need to hide, Ain’t no need to run.
‘Cause I’ve got you in the sights of my…gun!
— Led Zeppelin, How Many More Times
Designing Away Preconditions, by Michael Feathers. Good idea in theory, but I wonder if it holds up in practice.
Resume pitfalls every programmer should avoid, filed for reference.
Why I don’t like shared memory, by Joe Armstrong. Good points.
If WWII was an MMORPG, WJW.
RSpec cheat sheet, yum!
There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Ooh, ooh, and she’s buying a stairway to heaven
— Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven
sd.rb: Episode 003: mkmf, “Kevin Clark takes us through some of the work he’s doing on mkmf for his Summer of Rails project. We also get a quick preview of Kevin’s RailsDay app, Advisr.”
Spotlight On Glark, by Martin DeMello. I mentioned the Ruby grep already, but it’s worth another look.
CGI::App to Perl 6: A plugin system in one line of code, it doesn’t work yet, but sure sounds nice.
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