Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
23aug2007
Holding a Program in Ones Head, essay by Paul Graham. “A good programmer working intensively on his own code can hold it in his mind the way a mathematician holds a problem he’s working on.”
Cubulus OLAP, a 3kloc(!) Python Open Source aggregation engine with slice & dice web interface.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
“Charge for the guns!” he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade
Jacl is a self-contained implementation of a Tcl interpreter, written entirely in Java. If one evil is not enough for you…
The 38th Signal, a funny parody blog.
Cardboard Wiggle Stool, want have. I wonder whether it’s comfortable, though.
Searching for Non-Toxic Stimulation, by Noah Gift. Does sex count?
Extreme Agility with jMatter, by Eitan Suez. It’s a kind of NakedObjects-like sytem for Java.
Object Initialization and Construction Revisited, by Gilad Bracha. “Below is a standard example – a class representing points in the plane. What’s non-standard is that it is written in Newspeak, an experimental language in the style of Smalltalk, which I and some of my colleagues are working on right now.” It’s an interesting language IMO.
“Haskell Curry? Yes, I dated his daughter.”, WJW.
It’s nice to talk to you today
It’s very pleasant anyway
Is this as far as you go, girl
But I’ll let you guess
You can get me
If you let me oh yes
— Rolling Stones, If You Let Me
What Is Object Oriented Programming?, food for thought.
Introduction to Statistical Thought, a free book using R.
Soup is a new tumblelog hoster. Looks great.
Thoughts on the Social Graph, by Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon. “People are getting sick of registering and re-declaring their friends on every site.” Finally a solution in sight!
K Idioms, a huge list.