Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
29sep2006
Berkeley DB Release 4.5, “This new release now supports multi-version concurrency control, non-stop upgrades for replicated environments, and a pre-built replication framework to simplify development of highly available applications.” Now at Oracle.
Now anyone can Talk with Google Talk. (“Gmail accounts no longer required.”)
Smoking the Hubble-Bubble, by GhostOfTiber. “Take one part Indiana Jones, add a heaping spoonful of boring and a pinch of action, and you have military life abroad. The smell of shisha begins there, and it doesn’t smell like the Air Force…”
While I got the time I’ll do my drinkin’
While I got the time I’ll do my drinkin’
Every single day
Every single day
— Dan Bern, Sacre Coeur
This Chocolate Cake Recipe Tastes Terrible!, by chromatic. “Steve Yegge’s Good Agile, Bad Agile needs a filk song.”
Scaling Dynamic Websites with Apache Modules, by Yogesh Makwana. Uses mod_perl.
Open Up Your Wiki and We’ll Finish it For You, collaborative web development?
Things I Know, by Damien Katz: “1. I am forgetful.”
Stop Kidding Yourself You Understand, Dan Creswell says.
New Ruby BetaBrite – 0.0.2, nifty!
Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines (or queues).
GIF is NOW finally free—for real, with a final Unisys joke, by Tony Mobily. Can we please stick to PNG?
I don’t understand why I owe anybody anything
I feel like a tightrope walker and they took away my string
Feel like someone squeezed the juice out of my fruit
— Dan Bern, Fly Away
Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215–2006), “With a smug stroke of his pen, President Bush is set to wipe out a safeguard against illegal imprisonment that has endured as a cornerstone of legal justice since the Magna Carta.” Ouch!
Why I often implement things from scratch, by Joe Armstrong. “If you have the right tools it’s often quicker to implement something from scratch than going to all the trouble of downloading compiling and installing something that somebody else has written.” So true…
Rhabarberbarbara (YouTube), soo geil.