Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
27may2006
Musician Jokes, lovely! A young child says to his mother, “Mom, when I grow up I’d like to be a musician.” She replies, “Well honey, you know you can’t do both.”
Unwise microwave oven experiments, High Voltage in the Kitchen.
Hierarchy of Smalltalk Classes, in case you are not alreaddy confused about the Ruby hierarchy.
Lay down your weary tune, lay down,
Lay down the song you strum,
And rest yourself ‘neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum.
— Bob Dylan, Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Refactoring Everything, Day 24, by chromatic. Today: “The Great Database Reshuffling”.
Montezuma Heat Death, how canned air improves your benchmarks.
To Hell with WCAG 2, by Joe Clark for A List Apart. Eww eww eww.
Praised be I, writing. Dead already and dead again. — Jack Kerouac
World Grows Small: Open Standards for the Global Web, by Molly E. Holzschlag for A List Apart. “Seriously, we know by now how structure gives us something to hang our proverbial hats on.” Very good points.
Community Creators, Secure Your Code! Part II, by Niklas Bivald for A List Apart. Happy cross-site scripting.
New ruby-lang.org, it’s not official yet, but very promising. Great to see work getting done!
Chastity prays for me, piety sings,
Innocence sweetens my last black breath,
Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,
And all the deadly virtues plague my death!
— Dylan Thomas, Lament
Google Commissions Ten Ruby Libs, _why had a look at the Summer of Code project list.
STREST (Service-Trampled REST) Will Break Web 2.0, RPC will never die.
Space is the machine, Super-Kamiokande, a “particle observatory” in Japan—really a 12.5 million-gallon room filled with “glass photomultiplier tubes.”
Defining the Reals without Dedekind cuts or Cauchy sequences.