- Bolus of nonsense | New Humanist – “Why not heat the water for one’s coffee and shower by dancing in a circle or sacrificing a virgin?”
- Clojure » state – A great article on the design behind Clojure’s approach to identity and state.
- Moose analysis technology: Code City – CodeCity is written by Richard Wettel and is an integrated environment for software analysis, in which software systems are visualized as interactive, navigable 3D cities.
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del.icio.us bookmarks for September 2nd, 2008 through September 3rd, 2008
- Life Is Too Short For Bad Code: The Web Interface Is Morphing Into Emacs – “It’s just like XML over Lisp. The reaction to Lisp is, “OMG! Parentheses! Run!” On the other hand, XML (with twice the number of parenthesis</>) is cool/hip and folks have flocked to it.”
- Room 101: Foreign functions, VM primitives and Mirrors – I used to think primitives were redundant and just FFI was needed, but Gilad Bracha makes an excellent case for keeping them separated.
- Stephen Fry ? Happy birthday to GNU ? The GNU Operating System –
del.icio.us bookmarks for August 25th, 2008 through August 27th, 2008
- L1sp.org – a redirect service for Common Lisp documentation – L1sp.org is a redirect service for Common Lisp documentation.
- Rippling Brainwaves: 8 perceptual metaphors for OOP objects – “I know of no less than 8 ways or metaphors for perceiving the most fundamental concept of OOP, objects”
- Who Killed Gopher? –
del.icio.us bookmarks for August 22nd, 2008
- Pierre-Luc Beaudoin » libchamplain – Libchamplain is a C library aimed to provide a Gtk+ widget to display rasterized maps.
- The State of the Language: An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup – “rvalue references are very much a “technical extension” meant to be invisible to 99.9 percent of programmers. Their main effect will be some speedup in the implementation of common containers (e.g. vector) and algorithms” That would be true if C++ programmers used some common containers and facilities, but as every C++ project has at least 3 string classes and 3 non-stl containers, rvalue references will show up a lot more than expected.
Also, they’ll create huge amounts of macho code points for all those C++ programmers who have already mastered the wonderful, useless world of compile-time template meta-programming! - EDN Access–09.01.97 Going toastal – “With a computer, our customers can load the bread the night before, program a finish time, and get a perfect slice of toast when they awaken.”
del.icio.us bookmarks for August 19th, 2008 through August 20th, 2008
- Features of Common Lisp – “This page might be most useful to those with some previous experience in programming, who are marginally interested in Lisp, and want to better understand some of what makes it so attractive.”
- Patrick Michaud. I can haz compiler? @ YAPC::TV –
- Telescopic Text © Joe Davis 2008 –
- DadaDodo – “DadaDodo is a program that analyses texts for word probabilities, and then generates random sentences based on that. Sometimes these sentences are nonsense; but sometimes they cut right through to the heart of the matter, and reveal hidden meanings.”
- Holographic Interface – round interface – Ringo on Vimeo –
del.icio.us bookmarks for August 8th, 2008 through August 18th, 2008
- How to Design Worlds: Imaginative Programming in DrScheme –
- binghe.lisp – Symbolics Lisp Machine Documents –
- Dorophone: Struquine: A Useful Lisp Trick – I don’t think I like the name “struquine”, but I really like languages were the written representation of a value is the same as the one necessary to create the value when read. Other languages besides Lisp have this, for example, TCL and, in a way, JavaScript.
- http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/pointer-as-closure.txt – “There is a deep connection between C pointers on one hand, and Scheme closures that respond to the messages ref and set on the other hand. That means we can precisely emulate the semantics of ‘&’ in Scheme. OTH, we can say that C has a limited form of closures.”
- Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene – “a framework for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using a few photographs of the same scene.” Impressive!
- All new Monticello 2 « The Weekly Squeak – Monticello is a distributed optimistic concurrent versioning system for Squeak code written by Avi Bryant and Colin Putney with contributions from many members of the Squeak community.
- Nethazard.net: Emacs tip: How to edit multiple files on several directories in less than a minute –
- Deliver me from Swedish furniture – Swedish furniture name generator
- Branchless Equivalents of Simple Functions « Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger –
- Review Board –
del.icio.us bookmarks for August 4th, 2008 through August 5th, 2008
- Religions are hobbies – “This page proposes roles and rules for religions in society to allow us all to coexist without conflict.
Hobbies can coexist. Religious practices are hobbies.” - The Dada Engine – “The Dada Engine is a system for generating random text from grammars.”
- Introduction – Libfirm – “libFirm is a C library implementing the Firm low-level intermediate representation. Firm is used to represent computer programs in a computer program in order to analyse and transform it.”
del.icio.us bookmarks for July 29th, 2008 through July 31st, 2008
- Philosophy Now: The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond – “Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces.”
- Devs don’t need producers – Naughty Dog News – Page 1 // PS3 /// Eurogamer – Of course, they have outstanding technology too…
- Attic #42: Ode To Hungarian Notation – adjGood nounArticle.
- (fn Arc Language Blog): The rise of scripting languages and the fall of Java – “It claims scripting languages such as Perl, Python, and Javascript have dramatically fulfilled their early promise, provide many benefits, and are poised to take over the lead from Java.”
- andrew.puzzling.org : Rebase is not the only way to deliver clean code – “I’m a bit perplexed by fans of git’s rebase feature. I often hear git users recommending it as the way to work with distributed version control. I think they’re conflating ?the series of patches I want to share? with ?the revision history of my wor
del.icio.us bookmarks for July 24th, 2008 through July 28th, 2008
- littleb.org – home of the little b modular modeling language –
- Ship or Shut Up – destraynor – “How a simple idea can gather momentum initially, and then some mould and fungii, and then a ton of other crap that no one wants as well.”
- FOSDEM Video Recordings | FOSDEM –
- so you want to build a compositor — wingolog – A very good article with hands-on code and info on X, Composite, DRI, Clutter…
- Gamasutra – Working Remotely: Yes, It Sounds Good, But How Do You Actually Do It? –
- Black Grit, Inc.: Incremental Development, Lisp and Small Hemlock Notes – I miss incremental development so much…
del.icio.us bookmarks for July 21st, 2008 through July 23rd, 2008
- Document-centric GNOME – Slide 1 –
- ZeroC Blogs – Michi Henning – Michi Henning and Steve Vinoski discuss the origin and definition of RFC.
- Agent to the Stars — An Online Novel – Funny science fiction book.
- start [LFS] – “Examples of interactions $ ls ‘/lfs/ext:c|ext:h/date:*–*–2008/.ext/'”