Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
21dec2007
Memories of 20 Years of Perl, by chromatic. “Here are some stories from Perl hackers around the world about problems they’ve solved and memories they’ve made with the venerable, powerful, and still vital language.”
YAP6 Operator: The Cross Operator, by Adriano Ferreira.
Compressed Indexes for Dynamic Text Collections, by Ho-Leung Chan, Wing-Kai Hon, Tak-Wah Lam, and Kunihiko Sadakane.
A New Approach for Document Indexing Using Wavelet Trees, by Nieves R. Brisaboa, Yolanda Cillero, Antonio Farina, Susana Ladra, and Oscar Pedreira. More approachable introduction to self-indexes.
Hear the curfew blowing,
Hear the curfew blowing,
In the coal black midnight,
Hear the curfew blow.
— Woody Guthrie, When The Curfew Blow
Bus Scheme is a Scheme written in Ruby, but implemented on the bus! Finally Phil Hagelberg implemented his own Lisp.
Compressed Text Indexes: From Theory to Practice!, by Paolo Ferragina, Rodrigo Gonzalez, Gonzalo Navarro, and Rossano Venturini. “A compressed full-text self-index represents a text in a compressed form and still answers queries efficiently. This technology represents a breakthrough over the text indexing techniques of the previous decade, whose indexes required several times the size of the text.” If that works, it’s fantastic. (mfp: Implement that in OCaml and wrap it for Ruby.)
Tell me, could you ever tell the secret of the sea?
Of these high rolling waves along the shore?
The footprints of the lovers that come here to love,
By the tides washed away forever more
— Woody Guthrie, Secret Of The Sea
WSGI is tubes, tutorial by Ian Bicking.
WSGI: Python Web Development’s Howard Roark by Noah Gift. Yay for WSGI.
More on widgets: When one e-mail is enough to break a system, ouch: XSS with full user privileges(!) by sending a mail.