Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

12jan2006

Concurrent/Parallel Programming - The Next Generation - Part 2 , Bill Clementson focuses on Erlang in this post.

Move over test/unit, Ryan Davis compresses 3300 LoC to 71 LoC.

Something Very Wrong in the Sky by whooz_queen

Seeds of the Apocalypse, a fascinating idea.

Pico is a tiny but expressive programming language that was especially designed to teach advance computer science concepts to students in other sciences than computer science (such as Physics and Chemistry). I really like it, somehow. Be sure to checkout the research page.

ICU4R is an attempt to provide better Unicode support for Ruby, based on the ICU library.

‘Cause I’m a bird girl
And the bird girls go to heaven
I’m a bird girl
And the bird girls can fly
Bird girls can fly
— Antony and the Johnsons, Bird Gehrl

Rails in the Windy City, three days of Rails Studio to take place in Chicago.

Judge: Baby on board is no excuse, Pregnant woman claimed she was driving for two. “Candace Dickinson was fined $367 for improper use of a carpool lane, but contended her unborn child qualified to use the lane.” Gotta love the U.S.

Five mistakes of vulnerability management, a paper by Anton Chuvakin.

Thanks, 2005, John Wiseman posts some left-over pictures.

Not If But When, Photographs by Brian Urlich. (via MacDara Conroy.)

DSL? DSD? DSJ? by James Britt. Ah yes, naming…

DSC_0297 by dcwphotography

Trust Metrics Mixin #1: PageRank, _why implements PageRank for Ruby.

Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs, “Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark.” They are far easier to find in the dark that way. (I played with that gene too, but only injected it into E.Coli.)

If it uses two-space indents, it’s corporate code; if it uses four-space indents, it’s open source. — Guido van Rossum, Python Status Update

Moisture! is a nice and ironic tumblelog. Welcome. (via MacDara Conroy)

RScheme is an implementation of the Scheme language, with it’s object-orientation approach adapted from the Dylan language.

MAngband is a free online multiplayer real-time roguelike game, derived from the single player game Angband.