Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
27nov2007
Ruby Survey Results, Tim Bray looked at the editors we use.
Eventlet is a networking library written in Python. It achieves high scalability by using non-blocking io while at the same time retaining high programmer usability by using coroutines to make the non-blocking io operations appear blocking at the source code level.
Rack with JRuby+Servlet, it would be fun if these Java classes became a de-facto standard for Java web development. :P
And the DJ spins his records
From here out to the sun
And he flings them through a big hole
In the ozone one by one
And somewhere beyond Mercury
The wax begins to melt
— Dan Bern, Thanksgiving Day Parade
iPod Notes Feature Guide (PDF), this is amazingly complex.
Hivurt is a content management system powered by a component architecture. It gives you the strength of Zope 3 in an easy to use environment. It allows you to easily switch between ZODB and PostgreSQL data storage and features search and indexes, an easy editor UI, front-end skins, and localization and internationalization. Existing data stored inside an RDBMS can easily be accessed as Zope objects.
LLVM: A native-code compiler for MiniML in ~100LOC, yay!
Using Proof Assistants for Programming Language Research or, How to write your next POPL paper in Coq, tutorial at POPL 2008. I hope they publish their materials after.
Smalltalk and OMeta, implemented in OMeta/JS, great thingy.
Study in Mass, great buildings at the BLDG BLOG.
Rejecta Mathematica, John Baez asks: “Sick of getting your papers rejected? Then publish your rejected papers in Rejecta Mathematica!”
OCaml Light: A Formal Semantics For a Substantial Subset of the Objective Caml Language, they used Ott.
Six birds on a telephone wire, one was Mao Tse Tung
One was Rembrandt, one was Napoleon, another one was Cy Young
One was a guy named Stanley, who had been a clerk in a shipping company
One was Gertrude Stein, I shot ‘em all down bang bang
No more birds on the telephone wire
I shot ‘em all down bang bang
— Dan Bern, Six Birds
Languages categorized by Jean-Claude Wippler.
A Financial Perspective on DRM, by chlorus. “Asking consumers to take on such risks with no prospect of them materially benefiting in return is an incredibly unreasonable proposition and, to me, is the chief mechanism standing in the way of widespread adoption.”
draft-gregorio-uritemplate-02.txt prereleased. It starts getting complex.