Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
07may2006
Characterizing People as Non-Linear, First-Order Components in Software Development, by Alistair Cockburn. Classic.
ASCII Maps, Google Maps in ASCII. Awesome.
PNSDW, Philippine National Standards for Drinking Water.
Smart Pointers in C++, by Julio M. Merino Vidal. Ahh, the joys of non garbage-collected languages… :-)
Charting Data at the Bottom of the World, by Alex Gough. “I have an odd job: I’m the only programmer for about 500 miles. I look after experiments on a remote Antarctic research station and look after the data they produce.”
Hast du nur noch einen Tag
nur eine Nacht dann
lass es Liebe sein
Hast du nur noch eine Frage
die ich nie zu fragen wage dann
lass es Liebe sein
— Rosenstolz, Liebe Ist Alles
EigenCharges, using unary operators for defining filters is a great idea.
Grok Haskell Monad Transformers, “I’ve tried a few times to read various documents on the web about Monad Transformers in Haskell. I think that in almost every case the authors are trying to show how clever they are rather than explaining their use.”
A simulated planetary environment in the Utah desert, most important question: “Computer, are you providing enough refrigeration for our beer?”
rcov 0.3.0: happier Rails (code coverage analysis), great!
Open data types and open functions, by Andres Löh and Ralf Hinze. “We present open data types and open functions as a lightweight solution to the expression problem in the Haskell language. The idea is that constructors of open data types, and equations of open functions can appear scattered throughout a program.”
Oblivion, Steve Yegge rants: “Bethesda called this latest incarnation “Oblivion” because it sounded better than “core dump” or “segmentation fault”, but it has the same basic connotations.”
Architectural Criticism, “”It’s not our job to say: Gee, the new Home Depot sucks…” But of course it is!”
Not Yet In A Groove, by Patrick Logan. I always really liked the idea of Groove, I wished there was an open-source equivalent.
Ruby On Rails Reference, sounds very useful.
MiniLight, a minimal global illumination renderer. Just 432 LoC Ruby.
Fictohedron: Writing Team Novels with the Help of a Spam Filter, WJW.
Everything is changing faster than I can describe
All I really know to do is grab the wheel and drive
I look for love, and some adventure
And I try not to let my own breathing scare me off the road
— Dan Bern, Black Tornado
Genetics Basics, by Harrison Ainsworth. Featuring UML diagrams(!).
What do you believe about Programming Languages (that you can’t prove (yet))?, John Carter asks LtU.
Powered by Nukumi2 0.5.