One consequence of the NULL historical memory our trade has is that we get to see Worse is Better replayed from time to time. I’ve seen it on languages, editors, kernels, windowing systems…
This time it’s distributed version control systems, with discussions flaring up the Internet to decide which shall be The One DVCS to Rule […]
Crack.NET « Josh Smith on WPF - “Crack.NET is a runtime debugging and scripting tool I made that gives you access to the internals of any .NET desktop application running on your computer.” Greasemonkey for .NET. I wish something like this existed for gobject.
Room 101: We have Good news, and we have Bad news - […]
bitwize comments on Lisp at Google: Killed in 2001 Reborn in 2008! - “Any sufficiently complicated Common Lisp or Scheme program will eventually be rewritten in C++, Java, or Python.” - Greenspun’s 1/10 rule.
Browser DBus Bridge - SandboxWiki - “The Browser D-Bus Bridge allows privileged JavaScript code to talk to the D-Bus, both session and […]
Seed - GNOME Live! - “Seed is a library and interpreter, dynamically bridging (through GObjectIntrospection) the WebKit JavaScriptCore engine, with the GObject type system. In a more concrete sense, Seed enables you to immediately write applications around a significant portion of the GNOME platform, and easily embed JavaScript as a scripting-language in your GObject library.”
Room […]
X.Org Wiki - XKB - “The XKB data files for the various keyboard models, layouts, and locales are now maintained by the X Keyboard Config project on freedesktop.org” At last, some configuration help for xkb.
The Perry Bible Fellowship - Today’s My Birthday
kenodoxia: Why feel guilty? - Richard Dawkins, for example, reveals his guilty pleasure is […]