Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
26dec2007
What’s new in Perl 5.10, 4 micro articles.
JOMP: The Javascript One-metaclass Metaobject Protocol, “The beauty of this design, as far as designing an MOP is concerned, is that we only need a single metaclass (or whatever you want to call it for a prototype-based language). By modifying the behavior of objects, we can achieve a great deal of additional power. In fact, we can add a wealth of metaprogramming techniques to the language simply by intercepting the setting and getting of properties.”
ZSNES on the XO, yay.
Talloc: The Power of C, a malloc-replacement that’s so clever and elegant it makes me want to slap myself.
The castle started spinning
Or maybe it was my brain
I can’t tell you what she did to me
But my body will never be the same
— Prince, Darling Nikki
Planet Battery, “Earth beneath our feet might act as a gigantic circuit built by microbes to power their metabolic systems.” It’s not a planet at all, then, but a bio-electrical deposit rotating itself in space. A living battery.
Industrieschnee ist Schnee, der durch Emissionen (vor allem von Wasserdampf) oder Abwärme von Industrieanlagen, insbesondere Kraftwerken, hervorgerufen wird.
specs is a Behaviour-Driven-Design framework for Scala. Their tables feature is pretty nice.
Come a little closer huh, ah will ya huh.
Close enough to look in my eyes, Sharona.
Keeping it a mystery gets to me
Running down the length of my thighs, Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up. Such a dirty mind.
— The Knack, My Sharona
Taxicab Numbers with Haskell.
European Common Lisp Meeting 2008, “Arthur Lemmens and Edi Weitz are proud to announce the European Common Lisp Meeting 2008. The meeting will consist of a Sunday full of talks on April 20, 2008, with optional dinners on Saturday and Sunday evening.”
Complaints I’m Seeing About Common Lisp, by Dan Weinreb.
Ruby 1.9—Right for You?, PragDave evaluates.