Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
15jun2006
The Viberavetions Project, A Call Out To Artists/Musicians, Music Industry Profressionals, and Pure and True Fans Of The Art and Music These Same Folks Create.
A Look at Common Performance Problems in Rails, by Stefan Kaes. “On top of that, there are still some problem areas within the Rails framework itself, where I’d like to see improved performance in the future.”
Escher for Real, This work below presents some of these three-dimensional models that were designed and built using geometric modeling and computer graphics tools.
CACAO is a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which uses Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation to execute Java methods natively. Since release 0.93 a Vmgen based interpreter is also integrated. CACAO uses GNU Classpath as Java core library. Why did I never hear about it before?
I met this cool girl
And I told her I’d been blinded
I said I’ve lost my innocence
But you could help me find it
— Dan Bern, Thunder Road
Monsterz is a little arcade puzzle game, similar to the famous Bejeweled or Zookeeper.
give me some water, *trink*.
If It Bleeds, It Leads (To Less Money For The Artists), M. David Peterson says. “How on earth are the artists that RIAA represents making any money?”
Shipping Rails Recipes, PragDave made a presentation of how it works. Very grass-roots.
Ruby 1.8.5 in time for the Lantern Festival, let’s see if they can keep up.
Scaling Up with XQuery, Part 1, by Bob DuCharme. Nice to read more about this technology.
Refactoring Everything, Day 29, by chromatic. “Today’s task is to get just one single test running against the live, not a mocked, database.”
It’s never
As good as the first time
As the first time (Never as good as the first time)
The first time
— Sade, Never As Good As The First Time
Fun with Derivatives of Containers, at A Neighborhood of Infinity.
HOWTO make the perfect fruit salad and get laid, by Mark Pilgrim. Good one.
Good Responses, Damien Katz blogs on about Erlang.
Back to the Future: The Story of Squeak, A Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself, by Dan Ingalls, Ted Kaehler, John Maloney, Scott Wallace, and Alan Kay. Paper outlining the implementation.
HSV color space on Wikipedia.