Anarchaia

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

12apr2006

GCC attribute overview, lists documented GCCs function, type and variable attributes (__attribute__) together with the GCC versions the attribute was found in.

Reconciling XSD and RELAX NG, by Rick Jelliffe. Why can’t we just all use RELAX NG?

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. — Mikhail Bakunin

Stock Spam Effectiveness Monitor, “Well, actually, there is one type of spam where we can see the results: spam that tries to get you to buy stock.” Wow.

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Karo, Linie oder blank?, fragt der Schockwellenreiter. Ich halt’s mit den russischen Anarchisten (oder wer immer es gesagt hat, scheinbar Bakunin): “If they give you ruled paper to write on, write across the lines!” Bei freier Wahl jedoch kariertes Papier, das ist technischer.

The Development Abstraction Layer, by Joel Spolsky. Judge after reading completely, it starts a bit slow.

Jeden Tag stirbt ein Teil von Dir
Jeden Tag schwindet Deine Zeit
Jeden Tag ein Tag den Du verlierst
Nichts bleibt für die Ewigkeit
— Die Toten Hosen, Nichts bleibt für die Ewigkeit

KD Diedrich, RIP. Siehe auch “Die siebziger Jahre in Biberach” und “Die APO-Zeit in Biberach”.

The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki, Japan in spring. PNSFW.

Inertia is a live user interface environment similar to Squeak and Self, in that there is no distinction between edit and runtime program modes. (I mentioned it last November, but there are new demos and slides.)

Assembling North America, “I read that California is actually a welded-together mass of remnant archipelagos and former island arcs.”

noah/designbum collab by Issara

If You Want to Tell Your Friend About Camping But Unfortunately His Headphones Are Too Loud, useful indeed.

Is life always like this, brother?
Good for one side but bad for another
I must put you behind me tonight
‘Cause you belong to the lights
— The Smiths, Golden Lights

Stimulating Open Source development using competitions, by Rick Jelliffe. “It is unreasonable to expect someone of the quality of, say, SAXON’s Michael Kay to work without either support or the chance of reward.”

Kexi is considered as a long awaited Open Source competitor for Microsoft Access, FileMaker and Oracle Forms. You decide if you need it.

LaTeX2Forum allows easy creation of HTML-embeddable formulas.