Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
17sep2006
Charles Hamblin (1922-1985) was an Australian philosopher and pioneer computer scientist. Hamblin was the originator of the recursive stack (or last-in, first-out store).
Metalink is an Open Standard that bundles the various ways (FTP/HTTP/P2P) to get files into one format for easier downloads.
Om is a realtime modular synthesizer and effects processor for GNU/Linux audio systems using the Jack audio server and LADSPA or DSSI plugins. Looks very neat.
Offene Netzwerke auch für Deutschland! Dafür!
The Concert: A Classical Music Podcast, “Download free recordings of classical music performed live in the museum’s Tapestry Room.”
I will keep falling as long as I live,
Ah, without ending,
And I will remember the place that is now,
That has ended before the beginning…
— The Byrds, Fifth Dimension
Tales of the Hive: Blood, Sweat and Honey, by xC0000005. “The holy grail of beekeepers and bees alike, honey.”
The Ancient Arachno-Terrorist Organization: AATO, by mybostinks. Not for the phobic.
Reducing Fractions, the easy way. Or, 26/65 = 2/5, by Jonathan Wellons. Don’t fall for it.
Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed Charles M. Hannum.
Perlcast interviews chromatic, co-author of Perl Hacks, and lots of other things.
Atomic is an Atom protocol client implemented firefox extension. It can communicate with any number of different Atom protocol servers that support introspection. Yum!
RSS and AJAX: A Simple News Reader, by Paul Sobocinski. Good introduction.
Samurai: Protecting Critical Heap Data in Unsafe Languages, by Karthik Pattabiraman, Vinod Grover and Benjamin G. Zorn.
SecPAL: Design and Semantics of a Decentralized Authorization Language, by Moritz Y. Becker, Andrew D. Gordon and Cédric Fournet. Seems like a good approach.
Draft R6RS available, neat.
AppleScript: a story worth telling, the language doesn’t get better, tho.
Local and global side effects with monad transformers, solving puzzles in Haskell by creating puzzles? ;-)
Blogger’s Block #1: Joelprah, by Steve Yegge: “Part 1 of an N-part series of short posts intended to clear out my bloggestive tract. Hold your nose!” Also see Blogger’s Block #2: Anime for the Nonplussed.
Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark?, Jeff Atwood wonders.
Ruby internals: a self-study guide to the sources, compiled by Mauricio Fernandez. This is a great resource for everyone really interested in how Ruby works.
Sharing RJS (PDF), slides of Marcel Molina Jr.’s excellent talk.
Author Interview: Leonard Richardson, co-author of the Ruby Cookbook.
Rails Conf Europe Wrap-Up - Part I, by Christian Romney. Also: Dave Thomas Keynote (On Risk), JRuby, and see xml-blog for the rest.
Jon Gretar has a nice tumblelog.
RIP lilo, Rob Levin, known to many as Freenode’s lilo, was hit by a car while riding his bike. This is very sad. He surely had his enemies, but keep him in good memory.
Tools of the Trade: iTerm—Faster, with Safari-like tabs, Rob Orsini noticed the recent development.
Ruby and Strongtalk, I’m not sure this is a very practical way. Rather, let the Strongtalk developers help with JRuby (or YARV?).
Interview: Perl 6 on Perl 5, with fglock.
Oh What will you give me?
Say the sad bells of Rhymney
Is there hope for the future?
— Idris Davies, The Bells Of Rhymney
A Postcard from Rome, by A Bore. “For the worst pizza in Rome, you have to start from the Piazza San Pietro.”
rabissimo vol. 3, Lydia at her best. Und wundervolle Bilder.
Design in the World, linking to “a lengthy interview with Detlef Mertins, Chair of the Architecture Department at the University of Pennsylvania.”
Take 42: breakthrough, Jean-Claude Wippler says: “The final frontier has been breached: full dataflow!”
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