Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
18sep2006
A Logical Spreadsheet is a spreadsheet in which the formula language is expanded from function definitions to logical constraints.
Five Programming Languages You Really SHOULD Learn Right Now, a good but not special list.
1000 words of advice for design teachers, by Allan Chochinov. Very good.
Optimal width for 1024px resolution?, by Cameron Moll. 960px sounds like a good compromise.
Running the Manual: An Approach to High-Assurance Microkernel Development, by Philip Derrin, Kevin Elphinstone, Gerwin Klein, David Cock, and Manuel M. T. Chakravarty. “We propose a development methodology for designing and prototyping high assurance microkernels, and describe our application of it.”
Stick by me baby, in spite of my thoughts
that’s all I want you to do, and try to help me when I’m down
and I’ll take good care of you
— The Byrds, I Trust
AutoForms is a Haskell library to ease the creation of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). It does this by using generic programming to construct GUI components. Looks nice to use.
Searching for a New Epistemology in Berlin, what a workshop.
I Think, Therefore I eXist …, by Kurt Cagle. I don’t think full-fledged XML databases solve problems we really have.
RailsConf Europe and beyond…, summary by David A. Black.
The Laws of Simplicity, by John Maeda. Brilliant conclusion: “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.”
Now that the war is through with me
I’m waking up, I cannot see
That there’s not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now
— Metallica, One
Showtime: The New iPods, as usual, in-depth analysis by John Gruber.
Check smoke results while reading Synopses, the Perl 6 testers do really nice things.
“Is Open Source Art Possible?”, event in Tokyo 9/24.
Modeling Gravity with Ruby, by Paul Lutus. Cool.