Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
05apr2008
The Kx user community now open for everyone. And a personal version limited to 2 hour sessions is now available as well! Also OS X binaries, yay!
Q for Mortals 2.0: A Tutorial in Programming kdb+, by Jeffry A. Borror. Highly recommended book on Q.
Programs Ted Nelson Likes, for example Emacs!
Quick beats in an icy heart.
catch-colt draws a coffin cart.
There he goes now, here she starts:
Hear her cry.
Flight of the seabirds, scattered like lost words
Wheel to the storm and fly.
— Grateful Dead, Cassidy
Shaving with Ockham, excellent MountainWest Ruby Conference 2008 talk by Jim Weirich.
The Google Static Maps API lets you embed a Google Maps image on your webpage without requiring JavaScript or any dynamic page loading. The Google Static Map service creates your map based on URL parameters sent through a standard HTTP request and returns the map as an image you can display on your web page!
Textism is back!
Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3, and what Firefox lacks on Mac, by John Gruber. I mainly miss inline PDF rendering, why can’t someone please sit down and recompile Schubert’s PDF Plugin for x86!?
Memoize: A replacement for make, written in Python. “It is designed to be simple and easy to use.” It uses strace to figure out the inputs and outputs, wow. (Maybe this can be combined with redo-ifchange?)
Pretty lady ain’t
got no friend
till the Candyman
come round again
— Grateful Dead, Candyman
Simply efficient functional reactivity, by Conal Elliott. “This paper presents a way to implement FRP that combines data- and demand-driven evaluation, in which values are recomputed only when necessary, and reactions are nearly instantaneous. The implementation is rooted in a new simple formulation of FRP and its semantics and so is easy to understand and reason about.”
Debuggers are Needlessly Tedious to Use, Wolfgang Meyer presents a nice Oz debugger with Emacs integration.
A Debugger for Standard ML, by Andrew Tolmach and Andrew W. Appel. “We have built a portable, instrumentation-based, replay debugger for the Standard ML of New Jersey compiler.”
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