Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01jan2006
What To Say… What To Say…, geez, I want to go to a Pearl Jam concert too.
10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006, oh yes please.
Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki, does anyone actually read these blogs?
The Best of Bill — 2005, you wonder which articles Bill Clementson didn’t link to. ;-)
LooSeQL, Charlie Burrows comes up with a Lisp syntax for SQL, nice.
And when you feel you’re near the end
Will you just turn it over and start again
Is there a stirring in your heart
As the time comes when we will have to part?
— David Gilmour, Near The End
The knot driver, topological analysis of highway interchanges at BLDGBLOG (I finally subscribed!)
US boy’s answer to a school essay on Iraq: take a trip to Baghdad , WJW.
Glitter on the Highway, Patrick Logan is lucky.
[…] but it still seems as equally pointless as it did last year, compiling my own detailed list of the best 2005 had to offer, especially when the web has already been pre-surfed for me. — MacDara Conroy, Best of 2005
The Nuclear Reactor and the Deep Space Probe, Part 1 by Matthew Wilson. I’d like to kick everyone that programs for nuclear reactors in C++.
Broadband addiction, Joi Ito surely would have liked the 16 Gbit line of 22C3 in the plane. ;-)
Auld Lang Alice, I think my programming language for 2006 will be Haskell (at least I see no other obvious choice at the moment, even if I think I’ll still write far more Ruby than anything else).
Vital is a document-centered implementation of Haskell, a contemporary functional programming language. It aims to present Haskell in a form suitable for end users in application areas such as engineering, mathematics and finance. This is awesome, I wish it wasn’t Java…
We never chang do we? no, no,
We never learn to bleed,
So I wanna live in a wooden house,
Making more friends would be easy.
— Coldpay, We Never Change
Value recursion in the continuation monad (PDF) by Magnus Carlsson. These are good slides to see progress in your own understanding of functional programming.
Value recursion in Monadic Computations (a.k.a. Recursive Monadic Bindings), papers by John Launchbury and Levent Erkök.