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26sep2006
Guide to the new drafts of documentation licenses, let’s hope the new GSFDL and GFDL will make things better…
GPLv3: recent misleading information, “The Free Software Foundation wishes to clarify a few factual points about the Second Discussion Draft of GNU GPL version 3, on which recent discussion has presented inaccurate information.” Please read.
Rails for Java Developers, a new PragProg beta-book by Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland. “If you are a Java programmer, you shouldn’t have to start at the very beginning! You already have deep experience with the design issues that inspired Rails, and can use this background to quickly learn Ruby and Rails.”
I’ve got my finger on the trigger
And tonight faith just ain’t enough
When I look inside my heart
There’s just devils and dust
— Bruce Springsteen, Devils & Dust
A Calabi-Yau manifold is a Kähler manifold with a vanishing first Chern class.
Amazing Photos of an Atomic Blast (taken at 1/1000,000,000 of-a-second), somehow beautiful.
Limewire Hits Back Hard: Sues RIAA For Antitrust And Consumer Fraud, WJW.
Télécoms Sans Frontières is a member of the United Nations Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications (WGET). Great!
12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards, by Ben Henick at A List Apart. “The cries of frustration I hear from other developers about CSS are only an echo of the ones I made for years. As a result I like to think that I can relate, and I’m writing to convey the most important lessons I’ve learned so far.”
Long Live the Q Tag, by Stacey Cordoni at A List Apart. I really like the Q tag, but that hack is useless and, uhm, stupid.
GDB wrapper for Ruby, by Jamis Buck. Seriously, I was short before writing that myself the last time I tried to develop a VM in a TDD-style.
The New(?) Architecture of Redisplay, by Patrick Logan. “Here’s the real news… there is a *lot* to learn from understanding how Emacs works.”
Tonight I’m gonna get birth naked and bury my old soul
And dance on its grave
And dance on its grave
— Bruce Springsteen, Long time comin’
Programming in Tabled Prolog, book draft by David S. Warren.
Coco: Live at the Tinfoil, by “birds ate my face”. “Coco’s genetic dowry was a pasty, untanned pallor, shoulder length greasy hair, thin lips and a too-small, elfin head.”
Benefits from a real world switch from CVS to darcs, by Mark Stosberg. “I feel like darcs has contributed enough to my productivity and source code management to merit the switch of an important real world project.”
The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science, by Bernard Chazelle. “The Algorithm’s coming-of-age as the new language of science promises to be the most disruptive scientific development since quantum mechanics.”
Why Lisp?, Joel Reymont is back to Lisp. “Lisp is my peace of mind and I will keep it!” Question is how long…
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