Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
16oct2007
jQuery and XML, by Uche Ogbuji. “jQuery offers a lot of facilities, but it’s best known for offering a cross-browser model for accessing and manipulating web page elements that means you don’t have to deal with the endless pain of DOM.”
Quick List X at BLDG BLOG.
There’s a home place under fire tonight in the Heartland
There’s a well with water so bitter nobody can drink
Ain’t no way to get high and my mouth is so dry that I can’t speak
Don’t they know that I’m dyin’, Why nobody cryin’ for me?
— Bob Dylan, Heartland
Lothar Sieber war ein deutscher Flugkapitän und Testpilot. Er absolvierte den ersten senkrechten Raketenstart in der Geschichte.
On the Tension Between Object-Oriented and Generic Programming in C++, and What Type Erasure Can Do About It. By Thomas Becker. “The author discusses how the use of generic programming in C++ can lead to conflicts with object-oriented design principles. He demonstrates how a technique known as type erasure can often be used to resolve these conflicts. An in-depth example is presented: any_iterator, a type-safe, heterogeneous C++ iterator.”
The Web might be better than sex. — Bob Metcalfe
File::Remove reported to “rm -rf /” during tests, best argument for stubbing I’ve seen so far.
Through a bullet of light
Her face was reflectin’
The fast fading words
That rolled from my tongue
With a long-distance look
Her eyes was on fire
But the song it was long
And there was more to be sung.
— Bob Dylan, Eternal Circle
Atheists and Anger, “this piece is about anger, and for once I’m going to fucking well let myself be angry.” Partially good points.