Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
23apr2008
492 Jahre Reinheitsgebot, darauf trinke ich einen.
JSONVid: Pure JavaScript Video Player, yikes!
Konstruktivismus und Kreativität, “Ernst von Glasersfeld ist Mitbegründer der Denkrichtung des Radikalen Konstruktivismus, die untersucht, wie wir uns unsere Vorstellung von der Welt bilden. ORF.at sprach mit ihm darüber, wie Ideen entstehen und wie frei diese sein können.”
Sage-3.0 and Beyond, the fruit salad of free math software has been given a new release.
There would be a mighty clearance,
We should all be Planck’s adherents
Were it not that interference
Still defies “hν.”
— Gilbert Stead, Aitch Noo
Cruiser.Parse, parsing combinators for JS.
CPS in Little Pieces: Composing Partial Continuations, theoretical pearl by Daniel P. Friedman and Amr Sabry.
Google Summer of Code 2008, accepted projects are announced.
GRIPS, a pre-processor for functional programming in Prolog adds functional calls with return values. Makes it almost like Erlang. ;-)
Galois web libraries for Haskell released, some pretty nice stuff there.
Eternity, eternity
Honey, I love you, you love me
Let’s love each other through eternity
— Grateful Dead, Eternity
compcache creates a RAM based block device (named ramzswap) which acts as swap disk. Pages swapped to this disk are compressed and stored in memory itself. Compressing pages and keeping them in RAM virtually increases its capacity. This allows more applications to fit in given amount of memory.
Twitter Japan is a go!, Joi Ito says.