Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
12jan2007
YAPC::EU 2007 Vienna, call for papers about “Social Perl”.
The newforms library of Django is something I’d like to have for Ruby.
The Pirate Bay Wants to Buy Sealand, hell that would rule.
Scripting the Web with Python, by Guido van Rossum. This is from 1997(!), and the interesting part is the one about Bobo.
Closing Keynote, XML 2006, transcript of Jon Bosak’s talk. “I had the honor of introducing the SGML community to a product initially known as ‘SGML for the Web’ but by then repackaged under the name ‘XML.’”
And I look in the mirror
And I wait for the damn thing to speak
Who needs answers?
One good question would be a relief.
— Dan Bern, Feel Like A Man
Test Your Knowledge of Apache Topics, 50 questions by Emmett Dulaney. Had 31 correct.
MacFUSE: FUSE for Mac OS X, wow: “Today Google is releasing MacFUSE, an open-source Mac port of the FUSE mechanism for Linux. Like FUSE, it enables developers to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program.”
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. — Wirth’s Law
Twisted 2.5.0 released, now with epoll, asynchronous messaging, better Jabber and Python 2.5 support.
Handicapping New DNS Extensions and Applications, by Cricket Liu. “[F]ive new extensions to and uses of the Domain Name System: the Sender Policy Framework (SPF), IPv6 support, Internationalized Domain Names, ENUM, and the DNS Security Extensions.”
Painless Windows Module Installation with PPM, by Josh Stroschein. The “gems” of Perl?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.
— Bob Dylan, Masters Of War
Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11. All Hail Eris! Kallisti.
Will rubinius Be An Acceptable Lisp, “Regarding performance, it’s very easy to get Lisp performing well enough. And since Rubinius is built on a Smalltalk VM architecture, it’s operations fit very well with Lisp.”