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

31oct2007

Shipping Means Prioritizing, Jon Gruber excuses Apple for not having a JRE 6 ready. I would have loved if they killed Java…

Proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop are online.

Prédio by Igor B a r b o s a

Addressing the ORM problem, typed relational algebra, Mauricio Fernandez writes: “I have been working on a typed relational algebra that allows to abstract and compose queries that can be verified statically. This means that the type system ensures all queries are well-formed and you never try to use a non-existent column or table or an existent one with the wrong types.” WJW. (A nice exercise for category theorists as well…

Santa-Fe,
Dear, dear, dear, dear Santa-Fe.
Since I’m never gonna cease to roam,
I’m never, ever far from home,
But I’ll build a geodesic dome
And sail away.
— Bob Dylan, Santa Fe

Hot Pepper Record Broken, jd says. Yay! The Bhut Jolokia pepper scores over 1000000(!) on the Scoville scale.

A Few Steps For Shoes On A Mac, _why needs a bit help with Leopard.

A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features, by Thomas Ptacek, with this very interesting fact: “sandbox-compilerd embeds TinyScheme”.

Why I Love ECMAScript 4: Real Decimals, wow, a curly-braces language with a proper numeric tower? (It also has optional typing, which is even cooler… now add a reasonable syntax, please!)

happy halloween by reya.

Ikarus is a free optimizing incremental native-code compiler for R6RS Scheme. Must be the only R6RS implementation out there.

Smalltalk YX is an open source programming language. It’s an implementation of the Smalltalk-80 standard. Syx is written in C and embeddable.

Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP client, by Mark Crispin.

Sometimes I wonder about change
But change doesn’t wonder about me
So I figure it’s enough to live, do anything at all
We all got stuff to give
— Dan Bern, Drips

MHI is a commandline style mailreader in the tradition of mh and nmh, but mutated to support IMAP. Written in Python.

The Pirate Bay Sees a Future Without BitTorrent, let’s hope it doesn’t fall to the second system effect.

Police: Boy playing with matches started 38,000-acre fire, “well done”.