Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
23dec2007
Turning a Sphere Inside Out, the fun starts at 1:30 and will hook you. Very recommended.
MG4J (Managing Gigabytes for Java) is a free full-text search engine for large document collections written in Java. As a by-product, it offers several general-purpose optimised classes, including fast & compact mutable strings, bit-level I/O, (possibly signed) minimal perfect hashing for very large strings collections, etc.
In my heart I hear you sing again
Every note as natural as then
and when I sing those songs
for family and friends,
in my heart I hear you sing again
— Woody Guthrie, I Hear You Sing Again
Haskell-Join-Rules is a proposed Haskell language extension that introduces join style patterns which are compiled into CHR rules. Join patterns is a concurrency abstraction based on join calculus, with implementations found in JoCaml and Polyphonic C#.
Combining Events and Threads for Scalable Network Services — Implementation and evaluation of monadic, application-level concurrency primitives, by Peng Li and Steve Zdancewic.
Flower is a new kind of user programmable web service, especially well suited for applications which process, store, and query XML data sets. By Tom Lord.
The mechanically verified Ruby 1.9 changelog, nice trick by Mauricio Fernandez.
Oh, if you ain’t got the do re mi, folks, you ain’t got the do re mi,
Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee.
California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;
But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot
If you ain’t got the do re mi.
— Woody Guthrie, Do-Re-Mi
Question: Does the URI Length Recommendation of 255 bytes Matter Anymore?, by M. David Peterson. Hahahahahahaha.
Design Patterns In Ruby, a review by Pat Eyler.