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Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

19feb2007

Ruby Implementations Shootout: Ruby vs Yarv vs JRuby vs Gardens Point Ruby .NET vs Rubinius vs Cardinal, by Antonio Cangiano.

VioLet Composer is a tool for writing music from scratch using only a single x86 compatible PC with a soundcard. Nice demo track, too.

still winter by Steve took it

Radical Changes and the path to 1.0, news from Ruport, the Ruby report package.

God said, OK, I think you’re projecting
You just like saying his name
I said this dream is mine it isn’t yours
You may be God but this is my game
— Dan Bern, Venus And Serena

Introducing Another Wildly Ambitious Database Project, a database implemented as a RESTful HTTP service. The idea is getting popular.

Bounded space memoization, another new twist, Mauricio does it right.

Tersumus eraser, want have.

Fake drug, fake illness – and people believe it!, hehe.

Leftovers by Sibe Kokke

Modular arithmetic with regular expressions, “Find a regular expression, compatible with GNU grep, that recognises strings of 1’s and 0’s that form the binary expansion of multiples of 7.” Great stuff.

Are you gonna scribble in the dark with a marker,
or do you gotta have the latest pen
If you tell a good joke and somebody laughs,
do we gotta hear it over again
If you give someone a present is it just to make ‘em happy,
or just to keep ‘em at bay
— Dan Bern, Soul

Robot Bombing Game, yay!

The Magic Pens of Ruby, by David A. Black. “I’ve recently found myself describing single objects yielded by iterators as “magic pens.” Though it may sound more psychodelic than technical, it’s actually proven to be a good way to explain these objects and give people a feel for why an iterator would only yield one object in the first place.”

Bistro is a new programming language that integrates the best features of Smalltalk and Java. Bistro is a variation of Smalltalk that runs on top of any Java virtual machine (VM) that conforms to Sun’s Java specifications. That’s great!