Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
12nov2007
OpaqueMenuBar is a tool for Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” to make the menu bar non-transparent, so you cannot see through it any more.
Pattern Matching in Ruby, very clever hack.
A Compound Document is the W3C term for a document that combines multiple formats, such as XHTML, SVG, SMIL and XForms. I hope something like that becomes a future Office standard format.
Grok, Repoze, and WSGI beg the question, are webframeworks yesterday’s news?, Noah Gift wonders.
Conclusions about Wide Finder, C++, OCaml, JoCaml, Erlang and friends, by Mauricio Fernandez.
Flying geese, he said, I like that one
What s this about flying geese?
I guess, I said, They were flying overhead
And it frees us from the painting motif
— Dan Bern, Flying Geese
NEXCEL, a Deductive Spreadsheet, by Iliano Cervesato. “One thing spreadsheets are not very good at is manipulating symbolic data and helping users make decisions based on them. By tapping into recent research in Logic Programming, Databases and Cognitive Psychology, we propose a deductive extension to the spreadsheet paradigm which addresses precisely this issue. The accompanying tool, which we call NEXCEL, is intended as an automated assistant for the daily reasoning and decision-making needs of computer users, in the same way as a spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel assists them every day with calculations simple and complex.”
Computer Books: Reading Between the Lines: Book publishing has been turned upside-down—and back, by Michael Swaine. “In the topsy-turvy world of publishing, books remain a fundamental source of information for developers.”
A Small Combinatorial Library, “I thought it’d be fun to dig up my first ever Haskell project from about 2 years ago.”
git.caboo.se, the Git repository of Caboose.
1.5, poetry by _why.
puf is a download tool for UNIX-like systems. You may use it to download single files or to mirror entire servers. It is similar to GNU wget (and has a partly compatible command line), but has the ability to do many downloads in parallel. This is very interesting, if you have a high-bandwidth internet connection.
Inside the Vault, BLDG BLOG enters the “international doomsday vault”.
The 0xdb is a rather unique kind of movie database. It uses a variety of publicly accessible resources, like search engines and file-sharing networks, to automatically collect information about, and actual images and sounds from, a rapidly growing number of movies. What the 0xdb provides is, essentially, full text search within movies, and instant previews of search results. The core idea behind the 0xdb is that file-sharing networks can not only be used to download digital works, but also to just retrieve information about them.
Faster Math Functions, talk by Robin Green. “This lecture explains how to efficiently implement the transcendental functions on modern videogame hardware and the tradeoffs you can make. We cover common floating point “gotchas”, range reduction, polynomial approximation, table and semi-table based techniques and ways to leverage SIMD.”
Development now resumed on PDF::Writer, Gregory Brown and Michael Milner take over.
Dying 13-Year-Old Gets His Wish, Will Pork Janet Jackson (scroll down), the story that almost killed The Onion. (NSFW).
From place to place and town to town,
From red and green and gold to brown
To cash and get it up and down the coast
From face to face and down to down
From gray on green and gold to brown
From where I’ve never been and been the most
— Dan Bern, Running
Finnish School Shooting 7/11 – Translation of Sturmgeist’s Manifesto, by MotorMachineMercenary. “By popular demand, under the fold you’ll find a translation of the rambling manifesto of yesterday’s self-selected Darwinist.”
Real Productivity, by Gregory Brown. “True productivity just involves eliminating apathy from your life, leaving you with nothing left but things you care about, and no choice but to take care of them. What follows is a simple extension of that general idea into software practices.”
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