Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
08aug2006
DTrace Rides the Leopard, congratulations to the OpenSolaris DTrace community for hopping on the Leopard.
Designer creates floating bed, yay.
AOL search data mirrors, data mine your way to hell.
REST based authentication, unfortunately very messy.
With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg, A Designer Universe?
Who’s Idea Was ‘!important’ Anyway, by M. David Peterson. Is it really that hard?
Rails steps into year three, time for a fresh wind?
Kepler is a Web development platform using Lua.
City Heat Maps, showing which neighborhoods are more or less expensive.
Wedding Poems, Justin Mason presents Gravity of Love”. WJW.
Magnesium Wiki (MgWiki) is written in Python and built upon Mercurial’s versioned distributed atomic file system. Neat.
The Darwin Calendar Server is a standards-compliant server that allows multiple users to collaboratively share calendaring information. It provides a shared location on the network to store schedules, and allows users to send each other and manage invitations. Uses Twisted. (Check out the rest of macosforge.org too.)
Closer Look At Characters at the Common Lisp wiki.
You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have), I did, but noone told me! Good intro to monads.
Gentle Reader, Stay Awhile; I Will Be Faithful, by Amber Simmons on A List Apart. “Every opening paragraph is the beginning of a delicate and transient relationship between reader and writer.”
Where Am I?, by Derek Powazek on A List Apart. Three simple guidelines for better website navigation. I disagree on the “Never, ever link to the page you’re on”, often I want to pass a link on, and sometimes the address bar won’t work for reasons whatsoever.
Lay your belly under mine
Naked under me, under me
Such a filthy dimming shine
The way you kick and scream, kick and scream
— The Decemberists, Odalisque
Ruby on Rails will ship with OS X 10.5 (Leopard), why do I have the bad feeling of maintenance nightmare?
Dr Nic’s Magic Models use database introspection for automatic generation of ActiveRecord models.