Anarchaia

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

25dec2007

isitchristmas.com, YES.

Ruby 1.9.0 is released, announce by matz. ChangeLog.

The knife by crosslens

Fossil, a Software Configuration Management System. “Fossil should be ridiculously easy to install and operate.” It’s from the SQLite author, could be successful (even if it reminds me a lot of Monotone).

Nevertheless they could not understand
that I’m a black man, and I could never be a veteran.
On the strength of situations, I’m real.
I got a raw deal, so I’m lookin for the steel,
Looking for the steel.
— Tricky, Black Steel

happy xmas tree!, a valid, semantic, and imageless tree from britta to you.

YAP6 Operator: Reduce operators, by Adriano Ferreira. Yay for folds.

Wondermark #365: The True Meaning of Christmas.

This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics (Week 260), John Baez: “Since it’s Christmas Eve, I thought I’d list some free books you can download. I’m a big fan of giving the world presents… and I’m not the only one.” Lists some really good stuff.

o xmas light by aNNa Munandar

A practical scalable distributed B-tree, by Marcos K. Aguilera and Wojciech Golab. “Our algorithm supports practical features not present in prior work: transactions that allow atomic execution of multiple operations over multiple B-trees, online migration of B-tree nodes between servers, and dynamic addition and removal of servers. Moreover, our algorithm is conceptually simple: we use transactions to manipulate B-tree nodes so that clients need not use complicated concurrency and locking protocols used in prior work.”

docex module, a framework for running unit tests and examples, written in docstrings, by Peter Norvig.

Live Query utilizes the power of jQuery selectors by binding events or firing callbacks for matched elements auto-magically, even after the page has been loaded and the DOM updated.

I hate you, Edsger Dijkstra! — _why

This Hack Was Not Properly Planned, _why on the spontaneity of hacking. “Unit testing, in particular, is designed to reel in spontaneous hacking. It is like framing a picture before it has been painted. Hacking, at heart, will continue to be something of spontaneous order, something of anarchy, and the landscape of hacking is something which comes from human action but is not of human design.”