Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
02jan2007
A Tutorial on Behavioral Reflection and its Implementation, by J. Malenfant, M. Jacques and F.-N. Demers. “The efficient implementation of behaviorally reflective languages imposes a formidable challenge. By definition, behavioral reflection allows a program to modify, even at run-time, its own code as well as the semantics and the implementation of its own programming language.”
The nuXleus Project has the specific intent to become a User-Centric/Specific Application and XML messaging virtualization-based appliance in which a primary, user-specific/centric host machine can use as a secured proxy for all web-based communications.
2006 Asshole of the Year Awards, by Psycho Dave. “Truly, if there is anything notable about the past 365 days, it’s that there were few heroes and many assholes; more assholes than could even fit in the Goatse-man’s distended sphincter.”
Der Übermensch ist ein verfrühtes Ideal, das den Menschen voraussetzt. — Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus ist 1936 gestorben. “Das heißt, er ist ab heute gemeinfrei”, schrieb der Schockwellenreiter gestern. Hurra. Bei Gutenberg-DE ist schon einiges.
All I really want is some peace man
A place to find a common ground
And all I really want is a wavelength
All I really want is some comfort
A way to get my hands untied
And all I really want is some justice…
— Alanis Morissette, All I Really Want
Climbing Mt. Improbable, “Don Briggs has long dreamed of climbing a mountain. So he decided to build one.”
Saucy, the Unobtrusive Styling Framework. “The idea is to use javascript to style DOM elements using images rendered according to the certain style rules also specified in the HTML. This normally involves pointing the background image to the rendering script on the server using RMagick.”
Character encoding detection, a comparsion of various approaches.
Blast from the Past: The Story of the Apple Clover Symbol, “Turns out that the logo was based on a Swedish symbol used to flag noteworthy attractions at campgrounds.”
You that never done nothin’
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
— Bob Dylan, Masters Of War
Simple demonstration of Haskell FFI, one of the best foreign function interfaces in existence.
coffee with a “drop” of milk, great shot! WJW.
DParser is an simple but powerful tool for parsing. You can specify the form of the text to be parsed using a combination of regular expressions and grammar productions. Because of the parsing technique (technically a scannerless GLR parser based on the Tomita algorithm) there are no restrictions.