Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
08sep2007
An Ode to Olives, or, The Olives Home Page. Yum yum yum yum yum!
RubyConf 2007 Preliminary Agenda, some pretty cool stuff in there.
Diagnostic Styling, useful CSS tricks by Eric Meyer.
Finally Tagless, Partially Evaluated, Tagless Staged Interpreters for Simpler Typed Languages, by Jacques Carette, Oleg Kiselyov, and Chung-chieh Shan. “We have built the first family of tagless interpretations for a higher-order typed object language in a typed metalanguage (Haskell or ML) that require no dependent types, generalized algebraic data types, or postprocessing to eliminate tags.” Yay!
Book Review: Practical Ruby for System Administration, reviewed by Pat Eyler.
RESTful Web Services: A Review, by Kurt Cagle. I guess I really should read it.
I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
— Rolling Stones, Paint It Black
Squeak by Example is an open-source book about Squeak. Cool.
Image Compression: Seeing What’s Not There, “In this article, we’ll study the JPEG baseline compression algorithm… “, good explanation by David Austin.
Families of Scalars, major code smell.
Sound Field, “In 1997, Japanese composer Mamoru Fujieda released a CD called Patterns of Plants. The album featured “melodic material” that Fujieda developed using the “surface-electrical potential” of plant leaves. In other words, he transformed leaves into sound.” WJW.
Toward a Higher-Dimensional Wiki, by John Baez. 1) Happy birthday, n-category cafe, 2) I want to read that book, write it!, 3) I need a wiki like that too, more soon, 4) Is there a wiki with “official” and “public” branches?.
The Antidiagonal, advanced type hackery: “In a programming language with constrained types we can construct a type like “the type of pairs of X’s where the two X’s are distinct”. But can we make such a type in Haskell?”
The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite), by Michael Stonebraker, Samuel Madden, Daniel J. Abadi, Stavros Harizopoulos, Nabil Hachem, and Pat Helland. May this be the future of databases.
And his skin is so fair
And it shines like his hair
As he stands so aloof
With an indolent air
And an insolent stare
He just shutters the truth
— Rolling Stones, New Faces
CouchDb strikes a chord, “Apparently the switch to JSON and Javascript is a big hit.” It is, and now make the source compile here! :-P
Hamcrest provides a Java library of matcher objects (also known as constraints or predicates) allowing ‘match’ rules to be defined declaratively, to be used in other frameworks. Typical scenarios include testing frameworks, mocking libraries and UI validation rules.
quote/unquote bookends, by Eric Janssen. Pretty cool.
Git cheat sheet, cool one.
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