Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
18dec2007
Happy 20th Birthday to Perl, the world would be less without it.
CC0 is a protocol that enables people to (a) ASSERT that a work has no legal restrictions attached to it, OR (b) WAIVE any rights associated with a work so it has not legal restrictions attached to it, and (c) “SIGN” the assertion or waiver. Very cool.
RSpec 1.1 has been released with many interesting changes and additions. (I don’t get the Test::Unit part.)
And I’m blinded by the neon
Don’t try and change my tune
‘Cause I thought I heard a saxophone
I’m drunk on the moon
— Tom Waits, Drunk On The Moon
Abstraction Addiction at The Wiki. “I admit that I am an abstraction addict. I keep searching for higher-order ways to develop software. I strive to represent stuff with some kind of compact math-like notation or factor out the repetition and parameterize the differences rather than long-winded loops and IF statements.” Full ack.
shrubbery, Smart Html Renderer Using Blocks to Bind Expressions RepeatedlY, is a simple template engine, written in Python. Templates hold no logic, with nodes being cloned and repeated according the the data applied. Pretty neat.
I dreamed I was dying; as I so often do
And when I awoke I was sure it was true
I ran to the window; threw my head to the sky
And said whoever is up there, please don’t let me die
— Stars, Calendar Girl
The trouble with five, by Craig Kaplan. How to tile with pentagons.
A quick look at CouchDB Performance, disk use is horrible!
Ames Bros., Pearl Jam’s visual chroniclers, I love his style.
YAP6 Operator: Range Operators, by Adriano Ferreira. Crazy syntax, but rememberable.
YAP6 Operator: The Default Operator, by Adriano Ferreira.