Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
16jan2007
Rehersal is a testing framework for Scala, intended as an easier-to-use replacement for SUnit in the standard library.
eBay gem: “Phase 1 prototype iPhone from Apple-Phone AND iPod”, WJW.
Serial rubinius Interview: Episode V, “This week’s episode hits three points; Evan’s next steps with rubinius, garnet (the new name for cuby), and Software Transactional Memory (STM). MenTaLguY joins us for the third discussion, and provides a long list of resources to help get up to speed.”
On Programming and Mathematical Methodology – Part II, “In this post, I’ll talk about mathematical proofs.”
Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. 6()()I7 7#3j 423 ^0+ 1337.
It’s okay, we’ve all seen better days
It’s okay, you don’t have to run and hide away
It’s okay
It’s okay, yeah we love you anyway
— Dead Moon, It’s O.K.
Clooney, Sci Fi Celebrate ‘The Diamond Age’, “Sci Fi Channel has ordered a six-hour miniseries based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel “The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer” to be produced by George Clooney.” Is that even possible?
Joi’s Vegan Kitchen, “One big bonus of this whole foods vegan diet that I’m on is that my kitchen is clean.” ;)
Online documentation: what’s missing, by Andy Oram. “Documents could include forms for readers to submit background documents.”
Filthy Wal-Mart: a Photo Essay, a picture says more than thousand words.
Announcing XForum: The XForms Community Forum, by Kurt Cagle. I still consider XForms a dead-born, though…
The Day The Label Died, by M. David Peterson. That happens only now?
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain’t it hard when you discover that
He really wasn’t where it’s at
After he took from you everything he could steal.
— Bob Dylan, Like A Rolling Stone
Architecture as a form of deliberate paranoia, “I designed this goddamn thing!” he screams, rattling door handles and staring through rotating glass doors at the swimming pool.
rspec.should use_a_little_less_magic, a new proposal for extending BDD (XBDD anyone?). Very good, and I can make test/spec allow it easily.
URL rewriting with WEBrick, by Mauricio Fernandez.
Spinner is an anti-idle program that displays a little “spinning” ASCII character in the top left corner of your terminal. Spinner is useful for keeping telnet and ssh links from dropping due to inactivity. Many firewalls, and some ISPs drop connections when they are perceived as idle. By having spinner running the server is constantly sending a tiny amount of data over the link, preserving the connection.