Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

07jun2007

The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance is an interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on the reception of antiquity, a focus of Renaissance studies.

MovableType 4 goes GPL. Great thing.

It’s True-gle!, “FeedBurner has been acquired by Google.”

variations of red by jgrantmac

The LightHive: Luminous Architectural Surveillance, seriously cool shots.

Do we need WADL?, Joe Gregorio says no.

Ruby and methods with weird names, 100 points for Tomasz Węgrzanowski: “Every use of text-based runtime code generation is a failure of language’s reflection model.”

The long goodbye, “Today, we look back at 25 years of other changes in our lives.” I don’t miss most…

Was wir wollen, können wir erreichen.
Wenn wir wollen, stehen alle Räder still.
Wir haben keine Angst zu kämpfen,
denn die Freiheit ist unser Ziel.
Denn die Freiheit ist unser Ziel.
Alles, was uns fehlt, ist die Solidarität.
Alles, was uns fehlt, ist die Solidarität.
— Ton Steine Scherben, Solidarität

The blob, “The largest oil spill in American history is apparently: 1) in New York City, 2) nearly a century old, and 3) beginning to re-surface under Greenpoint, Brooklyn.”

XQuery, the Server Language, Kurt Cagle offers an interesting perspective on the future utility of XQuery as a server-side development language.

Announcing Gecode/R, Andreas Launila says: “Hello, I’m working on Gecode/R, a Ruby interface to Gecode, allowing constraint programming in Ruby.” Cool stuff.

EmacsHaiku, “A place for haiku of a decidedly Emacs bent.”

The Global Oh Noes, uncov on global warming.

moniqui by ariadna2007

Tasty hashes, Adriano Ferreira on renaming Hash to Dict in Perl6. “Well, after this, the discussion gained a gastronomic dimension and Perl got a new slogan: “At least nobody can say that Perl is bad taste!””

Apple to use Sun’s ZFS in Leopard, Woooot!

WikiCharts: Top 1000, Sex ranked #17.

Thank You, grep!, chromatic is soo right.

Perlcast #042: Curtis “Ovid” Poe talks about Perl testing and TAP::Parser.

There are no mistakes in life some people say
It is true sometimes you can see it that way.
But people don’t live or die, people just float.
She went with the man
In the long black coat.
— Bob Dylan, Man In The Long Black Coat

One year with Linux, summary by Mark Pilgrim.

Merging Functions, Modules, Classes, the whole nine yards…, a kind of clever idea.

HOPL III: Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991–2006, call me naive, but I didn’t know the real world was that ugly.

Sunset on the Tennessee River by RocketCityPoet

Amazing Tales From The True Life Of Rachel McAdams, by Why The Lucky Stiff.

Starting a new “Rails Project Spotlight” series, by Jeremy McAnally. “The idea is that I’ll post an entry once or twice a month about a new and active Rails project that’s looking for more exposure.”

Recapping this week in Manhattan, Postopolis! summary at BLDG BLOG.

June Blogging Contest, “the sixth, and final, month of the On Ruby/Apress blogging contest.” This time: “Other than Rails, what is your favorite Ruby Gem, and why?” I may give that a try.

Trends in Functional Programming 2007: Draft Proceedings, 435 pages cool stuff.

Comapping is a flash-based collaborative mindmapper. Looks usable.

We live in a political world,
Where peace is not welcome at all,
It’s turned away from the door to wander some more,
Or put up against the wall.
— Bob Dylan, Political World

DataMapper is an alpha Ruby O/R Mapper based on the DataMapper pattern.

rubystammtisch.at got a tumblelog.

list of non-english social network sites, compiled by danah boyd.

rubyrockstars.com helps find freelance developers, contractors and full-time employees for Ruby and Ruby on Rails Jobs.

Emacs 22 has been released, to quote #emacs: “Lucifer selling ice skates”.