Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
20may2007
RSpec reaches 1.0.0, let’s hope the API is stable now. Gratulations to the team.
Zero and her Origin, poem by Jeremy Bornstein.
Understanding Abstract Art, by Harley Hahn. With lots of examples.
Toka is a concatenative programming language with similarities to Forth. It has two accessible stacks for passing data, a dictionary which maps names to functions, an interpreter, a compiler (to call threaded code), a form of garbage collection, and various functions to aid in debugging and inspecting compiled code.
Now as I look around, it’s mighty plain to see
This world is such a great and a funny place to be;
Oh, the gamblin’ man is rich an’ the workin’ man is poor,
And I ain’t got no home in this world anymore.
— Woody Guthrie, I Ain’t Got No Home
Scaling rails: nginx plus mongrel cluster, with a link to Ezra’s slides.
O’Reilly Ruby will cover the Google Summer of Code, by Gregory Brown. Good stuff.
Printing Webster on Silly Putty: Making Model Driven Architectures Viable by Kurt Cagle.
Virginia Tech: A “Cho”ose Your Own Adventure, by Zombie PoopyPeanutz. “You’d go to the university, get recognized for your psychological and disturbing plays and people would shower you with money, fame, and love.”
Create a Morning Writing Ritual, I so should start this.
Provably perfect shuffle algorithms in Haskell. By oleg.
And maybe I didn’t hold you
All those lonely.. lonely times
And I guess I never told you
I’m so happy that you’re mine
— Willie Nelson, You Were Always On My Mind
Chinese Foot Binding, yikes. I wonder who comes up with such stupid ideas.
The “Is It a DSL or an API?” Ten Question Checklist, by chromatic. Good one. :-)
Cleaning Up PyBlosxom Using Cheesecake, any Ruby equivalent?