Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
29apr2006
RefleX is a general-purpose XML Virtual Machine that allows to write Web applications as well as batch scripts just with tags, to browse non-XML objects like if they were XML with XPath, and much more. Uh.
Take a Stand Against the Madness; Stop the RIAA!, help by signing the EFF’s petition.
Aperture Dirt, analysis by John Gruber.
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life. — Karl Kraus
More del.icio.us visualisations…, nifty.
European Common Lisp Meeting, Hamburg, April 29/30, 2006. Quick, quick!
Now in a Browser Near You: Offline Access and Permanent, Client-Side Storage, Thanks to Dojo.Storage, “Imagine if web applications could work offline with the click of a button. Want to access your web based word processor when you are not on the network, with your private files stored privately, right on your own machine and not on some server? Now you can.”
Like the coldest winter will
Heaven beside you… Hell within
And you think you have it still, heaven inside you
— Alice In Chains, Heaven Beside You
QEMU, a Fast and Portable Dynamic Translator, USENIX ‘05 paper by Fabrice Bellard.
Crochet Hyperbolic Coral Reef Project, the Institute For Figuring is crocheting a coral reef: a woolly celebration of the intersection of higher geometry and feminine handicraft, and a testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world.
SimpleTicket, the first Ruby on Rails based trouble ticket system released as an open source project.
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? — Karl Kraus
Ruport 0.4.0 released, a Ruby framework for report generation.
2.5x faster than yesterday!, a great achivement of the Pugs developers.
ruby-run-and-vsplit, a quick & dirty run-and-show-output-in-vsplit-window script for vim, by Mauricio Fernandez.
Open letter to my toilet, by Damien Katz. (Or: what to blog if your programming life is boring. :-P)
Refactoring Everything, Day 12, by chromatic. “Today’s task is to finish porting the nodetype and setting tests!”
pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT to help the user manage a set of patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGIT, but it does have a slightly different feature set. Patchy GIT sounds very interesting.
Gödel Centenary 2006, An International Symposium Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Kurt Gödel.
On formally undecidable propositions of Principia Mathematica and related systems (PDF), by Kurt Gödel. Translation to English by Martin Hirzel. Enjoy.
Candles red I have a pair
Shadows dancing everywhere
Burning on the angry chair
— Alice In Chains, Angry Chair
UserSurvey of Mercurial is published. Useful to everyone interested in DVCS.
ODE is an open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics. It is fully featured, stable, mature and platform independent with an easy to use C/C++ API.