Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
17nov2006
MySpace.com uses iBATIS.NET for persistence, I’d now say that it doesn’t only look ugly… :-P
The S stands for Simple, made my day.
Most people who criticize Lisp don’t understand it, Slava Pestov says.
Wanted: man to land on killer asteroid and gently nudge it from path to Earth, Armageddon 2.0.
Wonderful logos & the logic behind them, I never noticed the thing with FedEx.
And these days, they linger on, yeah, yeah
And in the night, I’ve been waiting for
A real possibility that I may meet you in my dreams
I go to sleep
— Pearl Jam, Come Back
The XML decade, “Thoughts on IBM Systems Journal’s retrospective of XML at ten years (or so)”, is it over finally?
Utopian Typography, a “digital typeface that portrays the mixture between the modernist architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and informal occupation of the urban space that shapes major Brazilian cities.”
Caching Dynamic Content with Apache httpd, by Rich Bowen. “Twenty Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Your Apache Web Server Caching”.
ISO Standards for Schematron, RELAX NG, NVDL now available free , Rick Jelliffe says. “Other free standards available include for C, C# and CLI, FORTRAN, Z, JPEG200, CGM, and many concerned with telephony and removable media. ASN.1 is on the way, too.” Whoo!
Converting Content Models to Schematron, by Rick Jelliffe. Specification by assertion is really worth a look.
There’s a new day at dawn and I’ve finally arrived.
If I’m there in the morning, baby, you’ll know I’ve survived.
I can’t believe it, I can’t believe I’m alive,
But without you it just doesn’t seem right.
Oh, where are you tonight?
— Bob Dylan, Where Are You Tonight?
CAPOW implements continuous-valued cellular automata. Neat stuff.
A Manifesto for Networked Objects — Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids and Aibos in the Internet of Things (PDF), or: “Why Things Matter”, by Julian Bleecker. “‘Things’ in the pervasive Internet, will become first-class citizens with which we will interact and communicate.”
TreeMaker is software to construct origami.