Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
07jul2007
Rubinius 0.7 has been released. “It’s very much still a developer preview, but hopefully there are people out there who will enjoy it.”
iPhone Native Looking Skin, a bit of Javascript and CSS to make nicer apps.
iPhone serial hacked, full interactive shell, all hail RS-232.
Biblic suicide bombers are cited in Wikipedia: “Samson said, ‘Let me die with the Philistines!’ Down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more as he died than while he lived.” (Judges 16:30).
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you and me.
Says I “But Joe, you’re ten years dead”
“I never died” said he,
“I never died” said he.
— Alfred Hayes, I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night
HOPL-III: Modula-2 and Oberon, “Niklaus Wirth discusses two of his Pascal successor languages in the HOPL-III paper on Modula-2 and Oberon.”
Mathematical Paris, John Baez started taking pictures of streets named after mathematicians.
The Joy of Titling, PragDave looks for better titles for his books.
Stars up in the sky and,
I do wonder yeah,
Wonder who am I and,
Oh I do, ooh,
But I know it’s true,
Just like I know you,
And if you realise,
The things you,
I am hearing,
La la la la la.
— Love, Wonder People
Treetop is a Ruby-based DSL for text parsing and interpretation. It facilitates an extension of the object-oriented paradigm called syntax-oriented programming. Includes a C compiling PEG parser.
Safari Real Does Leak the World, “640 Petabytes should be enough for anyone.” *g*