Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
04sep2006
Guide: Things You Shouldn’t Be Doing In Rails, by Kevin Clark. Looks good, especially if Rails moves faster than you can follow. Read this.
MSIE 7 RC1 Second Acid Test Results, WJW.
Low Pro: Unobtrusive Scripting For Prototype, really useful.
Developing a Rails model using BDD and RSpec, Part 1, by Luke Redpath.
Lucky Button: Search the web’s best search engines from one place!, nice for a start page.
How to get users to RTFM, by Katie Sierra. Must read.
FreeDOS 1.0 has been released. Oh wow.
Winter’s gone, the river’s on the rise
I loved you then, and ever shall
But there’s no one left here to tell
The world has gone black before my eyes
— Bob Dylan, Nettie Moore
Impromptu is an OSX programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ’s and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. Impromptu is a Scheme language environment, a member of the Lisp family of languages.
Factor 0.84 is now available.
How 9/11 changed America: In statistics, “Five years after the 11 September attacks, how has America changed?”
“Did You Hear the One About Hitler?”, some mildly amusing jokes.
Learning GNU Make Functions with Arithmetic, ouch.
Death by Google Calendar: How I Identified you to rob you, be careful about what you provide to the public.
CDfs is a file system for Linux systems that `exports’ all tracks and boot images on a CD as normal files.
Perl6::Perl5::Differences, Differences between Perl 5 and Perl 6. Worth a read for outsiders, too.
CouchDb to do list, why no “port to a real OS”?
Beyond the horizone, the night winds blow
The theme of a melody from many moons ago
The bells of St. Mary, how sweetly they chime
Beyond the horizon I found you just in time
— Bob Dylan, Beyond The Horizon
SGML turns 20, Rick Jelliffe noticed it. I just don’t agree with the “SGML has succeeded by abandoning the Wiki-like markup feataures”-part.
To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus with Animated Reduction, by David C Keenan. Classic, just redisovered. Must read.
How the Macintosh interface didn’t keep up with itself, by Andy Oram. He claims a single menu bar doesn’t work in a multi-tasking environment. NACK.
RESTy Routes in Rails: Drinking DHH’s KoolAid, Theodore Polonsky Presented to Rubyists of Second Life August 31, 2006.
Using RubyInline for Optimization, tutorial by Eric Hodel.
Catching up with Unicode 5.0, by Rick Jelliffe. “There are only 1369 new characters compared to Unicode 4.1.”
Topology in Programming Language Semantics, a bunch of links for you.
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