Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
04apr2006
Lazybase allows anyone to design, create and share a database of whatever they like.
Bit Twiddling Hacks, by Sean Eron Anderson. “Counting bits set, in parallel”, whee.
Interesting Facts About Domain Names, contains nice diagrams.
The Software Freedom Conservancy is an organization composed of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. As a fiscal sponsor for FOSS projects, the Conservancy provides member projects with free financial and administrative services, but does not involve itself with technological and artistic decisions. Very nifty logo, by the way.
Ratcl implements relational algebra and more for Tcl. Vlerq 1.0 is released.
Now the people cry and the people moan
And they look for a dry place to call their home
And try to find someplace to rest their bones
While the angels and the devils fight to claim them for their own
— Meat Puppets, Lake of Fire
Raver chomps through 40,000 disco biscuits, WJW. “Mr A, the subject of the report appearing in the journal Psychosomatics, was consuming 25 pills a day.”
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, by Adam Greenfield on A List Apart.
Anonymity and Online Community: Identity Matters, by John M. Grohol on A List Apart. No mention of 2ch/tripcode, though.
Early Amazon: Recommendations, by Greg Linden, and why side projects are cool.
Refactoring Everything, Day 1, by chromatic. This 30-day project explores the refactoring of a legacy system. Refactoring a big Perl site sounds interesting.
SBCL Wins by providing the first native Intel OS X Common Lisp compiler.
Debugging ParseTree (or Walking in Great Footsteps), by Sean Carley. You’ll also learn about the Ruby evaluator.
Production Rails Studio, Mike Clark and James Duncan Davidson will we running a studio dedicated to putting Rails applications into production.
Dynamic Languages Symposium, Call for Papers. Will take place just before OOPSLA 2006.
Telepathy: IM/VOIP Integration Framework, the aim of this project is to provide a D-Bus-based framework that unifies all forms of real time conversations, including, but not limited to, instant messaging, IRC and voice and video over IP.
Why has the actor model not succeeded?, by Paul Mackay. “Static analysis cannot support reflection, or reconfiguration of the runtime system.”
Computer-coding the IPA: a proposed extension of SAMPA, What follows is a proposed keyboard-compatible coding for the entire set of IPA symbols. Evan Kirshenbaum’s approach is nice, too.
Now I think if I had to live outside the garden of paradise
It might as well be spent looking in your eyes
The lies might as well be your lies
The thighs might as well be your thighs
It might as well be with Eva
It might as well be with you
— Dan Bern, Eva
The Role of Architects, by Kurt Cagle. “An architect must be a polymath.”
The Stamford Ruby User Group has a tumblelog. Welcome!
Native delimited continuations in (byte-code) OCaml, those wouldn’t be too hard to add to the VM directly, though. (See Scheme48.)
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