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06nov2006
gNewSense is a completely GNU-free Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.
Euruko 2006: Day One, Day Two, my summary of the European Ruby Conference.
Sloppy deliberately slows the transfer of data between client and server. Using Sloppy is one way to get the “dial-up experience” of your work without the hassle of having to install a modem.
NetBSD 3.1 contains many bugfixes, security updates, new drivers and new features like support for Xen3 DomU.
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.
OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them.
I can’t do the talk so like the talk on the TV
And I can’t do a love song like the way it’s meant to be
I can’t do everything, but I’ll do anything for you
I can’t do anything except be in love with you
— Dire Straits, Romeo And Juliet
REST Web Services, a future book by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby. Very needed, in my opinion.
Gazzag.com is my new enemy, by Jennifer Golbeck. If you are telling cool new services your Orukut account information, you are pretty… dumb, no?
IRB+RI: still room for improvement – better completion, method definition site discovery, Mauricio Fernandez does not stop.
“Proof-Directed Debugging” Revisited, looks neat.
YARV is Merging, let’s hope something gets going.
Sun-cancellation cloud, “Will “a swarm of umbrellas” protect the Earth from global warming?”
How to wake up by 6:30 every morning – for the serious procrastinator, by markovich. I actually do… not every morning, though. But I don’t need the brute-force approach.
Word on MCL for Intel Macs, found by John Wiseman. “We don’t have an accurate idea of when the port will be ready, but it is a priority.”
What Happens When “OpenDocument” Won’t Open?, by M. David Peterson. “Step One: Check to make sure that the .odt isn’t just an .sxw in disguise.” Duh!
Followup to “The Difference Between IE7 and a Virus”, by Kurt Cagle. “I’m frankly a little disappointed in the feedback on the article, however.”
Variable substitution gives a… monad!
OOPSLA/DLS and the upcoming POPL 2007, by Audrey Tang. With lots of good links.
String Theory and the Crackpot Index, by glor. “So, for fun, I scored it.”
Hash Crash Course, by Simon Cozens. Arguably Perl’s best data structure.
Orc, a simple and expressive process calculi, “It’s combination of simplicity and expressiveness is amazing.”
Vlerq development roadmap, the Vlerq 4 repository now is public! “Vlerq 4 is the current development version. It was rewritten from scratch starting mid 2006. The code is in C, of which some 70% is language binding independent and the remaining 30% interfaces to Tcl.”
It’s all in the numbers…, “How many lines of code are there in Mac Office?” WJW.
15 minutes, Damien Katz wonders how to present CouchDb in front of the Y Combinator guys. The result.
Paradise Now, Arcadia is a project “assembled from images that share the tag ‘arcadia’ in an online photo-sharing website.”
He’s travelling from town to town
He’s preaching what he can
No evil spell can bring him down
Cause he’s a holy man
— Funny Van Dannen, Holy Man
Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages: from Haskell to Java to Links, Phil Wadler’s OOPSLA keynote.
A Categorical Manifesto, by Joseph Goguen. “This paper tries to explain why and how category theory is useful in computing science, by giving guidelines for applying seven basic categorical concepts: category, functor, natural transformation, limit, adjoint, colimit and comma category.”
The Shunting yard algorithm is a method for parsing mathematical equations specified in infix notation. It can be used to produce output in Reverse Polish notation (RPN) or as an abstract syntax tree (AST).
Bongo plays your music without any fuss, and it’s damn flexible too – it is based on Emacs, after all. It’s also designed with usability specifically in mind. Sounds nice, but not a iTunes drop in…
SOA facts, e.g. “Guns don’t kill people, the SOA WS-* stack kills people.”
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