Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01jun2006
The Pirate Bay will be up and fully functional within a day or two. Hooray?
Ubuntu 6.06 ‘Dapper Drake’ LTS released, providing five years of support.
xsugar makes it possible to manage dual syntax for XML languages. An xsugar specification is built around a context-free grammar that unifies the two syntaxes of a language. Given such a specification, the xsugar tool can translate from alternative syntax to XML and vice versa.
The Weird World of Bi-Directional Programming, by Benjamin C. Pierce. Excellent slides of an ETAPS 2006 talk. Read them.
Marilyn Monroe didn’t marry Henry Miller
She lived outside the Tropic of Capricorn
Marilyn Monroe didn’t marry Henry Miller
I don’t even know if she knew Henry Miller
— Dan Bern, Marilyn
The Iran Badge Hoax, by Hung Fu. “The world reacted with shock and dismay last month to the news that Iranian Jews were being forced to wear yellow badges, a policy made infamous by the Nazis.” It was a hoax, but I didn’t hear of it at all.
Converting Between XML and JSON, by Stefan Goessner. The whole situation is a bit ironic and screams for E4X.
Re-examining message passing, Dan Sugalski sees the light: “So, this morning when I got off the train it hit me that making message passing really really lightweight is a Good Thing.”
The end of an era for Times New Roman?, Office 2007 will have a sans-serif default font. OMG.
Refactoring Everything, Day 26, by chromatic. “Today’s task is removing around a thousand lines of code while improving test coverage. Really? Really!”
How to reduce base OSX install from 18Gs to 10Gs., by Steve Mallett.
Document Oriented Development, by Damien Katz. “It felt like I had a term to concisely describe the sorts of applications CouchDb is made for.”
So if you want to love me
Then darlin’ don’t refrain
Or I’ll just end up walkin’
In the cold November rain
— Guns N’ Roses, November Rain
teTeX is de-supported as of May 2006. This is very sad, I hope a new maintainer can be found.
MolTalk is a computational environment for doing Structural Bioinformatics. It interprets PDB formatted files and creates an object representation of the structure-chain-residue-atom hierarchy. Through the use of MolTalk, the PDB suddenly becomes an object-oriented database.
The Illustrated Nethack Monsters, a picture for each monster. Nice nurse. ;-)
Manufacturing arches, better preserve those National Parks.
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