Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
24apr2007
Coda, John Gruber reviewed panic.com’s latest app. I fear it wouldn’t work for me, but it’s a cool and well-done idea certainly.
Boy, Pigeon, Crushed Firebox, what a lovely shot.
The Web Design Survey, 2007, by ALA Staff.
Hey desert wind
Carry me away
Someplace where I know what to do and what to say
And hey, when I’m sleeping
I dream of a camel sleigh
And a desert wind to carry me away
— Dan Bern, Desert Wind
The Long Hallway, by Jonathan Follett at A List Apart. “You’ve heard of the long tail and the long walk home. Now, for all those micro design firms looking to grow to the next level, there’s the long hallway—the distance between the physical working spaces of the individuals that comprise virtual companies—which may be as short as a few miles across town or as long as thousands of miles across continents and oceans.”
Contrast and Meaning by Andy Rutledge at A List Apart. “Design is largely an exercise in creating or suggesting contrasts in an effort to convey meaning.”
DisTract is a Distributed Bug Tracker, currently only for Monotone but more to come.
Basics of Compiler Design, by Torben Mogensen. Full-text online.
Pantheonic Astronomy, “A testament to Roman architecture and engineering,” NASA writes, “the Pantheon’s dome is said to symbolize the vault of the heavens.”
TAP, the Test Anything Protocol, is a simple text-based interface between testing modules in a test harness.
XML Versus TAP, by Curtis Poe. I wish TAP was more popular among Rubyists.
Sturm and Ruger, GhostOfTiber on the Mini-14.
Lisp and Python Syntax, John Wiseman thinks Python is easy to read. I have a hard time actually.
I found a liquid cure
From my landlocked blues
It’ll pass away like a slow parade
It’s leaving but I don’t know how soon
— Bright Eyes, Landlocked Blues
XML Becomes Pervasive on the Web, by Kevin Farnham, says. “In a sense, you can no longer put “XML” on your resume in the list of technologies you understand.” That ever worked?
Goplan is an online project management solution. It allows teams and individuals to collaborate through tasks, file management, real-time chat, online calendaring, and many other features.