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22sep2006

A Transformation System for Developing Recursive Programs, by R. M. Burstall, John Darlington. “An initially very simple, lucid, and hopefully correct program is transformed into a more efficient one by altering the recursion structure. Illustrative examples of program transformations are given, and a tentative implementation is described.”

kaleidoscope by pickle1

Smalltalk for Everyone Else, by Keith Fieldhouse. “Instead of yet another Algol derivative, why not master object orientation with perhaps the purest OO language ever devised?” Nice introduction for newbies.

SquidSoap is a fun soap dispenser designed for teaching children healthy hand washing habits. “SquidSoap works by applying a small ink mark on a person’s hand when they press the pump to dispense the soap. The ink is designed to wash off after the hands are washed for about 15–20 seconds, which is the time recommended by most doctors.”

Chumby, a compact device that can act like a clock radio, but is way more flexible and fun. It uses the wireless internet connection you already have to fetch cool stuff from the web: music, the latest news, box scores, animations, celebrity gossip…whatever you choose. Want-have!

Drum laß am Samstag backen
Das Brot, fein säuberlich—
Sonst werden wir sonntags packen
Und fressen, o König, dich!
— Georg Weerth, Das Hungerlied

App After App: A zoology of next year’s web applications, slides by Matt Webb for BarCamp London. As usual, very good and recommended reading.

Waiting for the revolution, by Mark Pilgrim. “The short answer is yes, I count all Non-Commercial-Use-Only licenses as overly restrictive.” I completely agree, I always hated NC (And the main reason why all my non-documentation coding is licensed for verbatim use only).

Practical Synthetic Differential Geometry in Haskell. “My goal here is to illustrate how the definition of vector field in Anders Kock’s book gives a nice functional definition of a vector field and how that definition leads naturally to the Lie bracket.”

iX-Konferenz “Bessere Software!”: PHP-Erfinder als Keynote-Sprecher, die Überschrift machte meinen Tag.

devereaux #1, profile by sandcastlematt

EuroOSCON 2006 Slides: Guerilla Evangelism, by Zak Greant.

Deutsches Gericht bestätigt Gültigkeit der GPL, und es gab viel frohlocken. “Das Landgericht Frankfurt hat Anfang September erstmals in einem Hauptsacheverfahren mit Beweiserhebung die Gültigkeit der GNU General Public License (GPL) bestätigt. Harald Welte, Entwickler des Netfilter-Codes im Linux-Kernel und Betreiber der Initiative gpl-violations.org, hatte gegen den Hardwarehersteller D-Link geklagt.”

Today is One Web Day, please mail me how Anarchaia has changed your life. The best posts will be published on Monday.

Good and bad I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now
— Bob Dylan, My Back Pages

Delicate Situation or how women can hide a gun. Do they discover that when going to airport security? WJW.

Madonna Concert, you wouldn’t expect Joi Ito going there, would you?

If there’s a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it’s the basic fact that all programming languages suck. — Larry Wall

The State of the Onion 10, by Larry Wall. Whoo, finally the commented slides are up. Must-read, as every year. “This expert claims that you can become an expert in just about anything if you study it persistently for ten years or so.” That’s true.

Contribute to CouchDb and show off your AJAX skills, the idea of a VB client really scares me.

Dimensional Analysis, by John Baez. “What’s so special about mass, length and time? Do we have to use three dimensions?”

PlanetDS XSS, outline of an cross-site scripting attack.