Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
26aug2007
Tumblelogging: don’t think about it, just write, we made it into the Daily Telegraph!
Hash Tags = Twitter Groupings, I really like this idea.
Gambit-C v4.0.0 is now available. “Version 4 also marks the beginning of the Gambit source code repository managed by Mercurial.”
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the hotel california
Any time of year, you can find it here
— Eagles, Hotel California
buzhug is a fast, pure-Python database engine, using a syntax that Python programmers should find very intuitive.
Java needs an overhaul, by Russell Beattie. Full of awesome quotes: “the heyday of the language and platform has come and gone, and IMHO, it’s going to continue to fade from relevance with increasing speed.”, “But in general Java is yesterday’s technology.”, “I just don’t want to waste my server’s resources on a bloated JVM.”, “There’s something about the Java culture which just seems to encourage obtuse solutions over simplicity.”
A functional correspondence between evaluators and abstract machines, by Mads Sig Ager, Dariusz Biernacki, Olivier Danvy, and Jan Midtgaard. “We bridge the gap between functional evaluators and abstract machines for the lambda-calculus, using closure conversion, transformation into continuation-passing style, and defunctionalization of continuations.”
VamOz is a visual abstract machine executing kernel language programs as defined in the book Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi. The idea is to give students a tool with which they can increase their understanding of how the abstract machine computes.
CouchDb, big changes coming, great news: “Jan and I have been doing a bunch of work converting CouchDb over to use JSON instead of XML and Javascript instead of a custom query language.”
Hello. Welcome to my squash cave. “A Roman bath, a cinema for two dozen friends, even a subterranean tennis court – the super-rich are transforming their London homes, even if it means digging dozens of feet undergound.”
I done my traveling
I done my traveling
From now on, it’s just gambling,
That I’ll be doing here
Be doing here
— Dan Bern, Cowboy
compiling ruby for the iphone, Courtenay tried but I doesn’t yet really work.
Simon Cozens’ Books, put into a wiki.
Jack Kerouac Book Covers, “A selection of front covers of various editions of On the Road.” I have Penguin 1972 and Rororo 1968.
An Accidental Simula User, Luca Cardelli, very good slides, highly recommended.
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