November 2007
How Well Do You Know Your World? →
An addictive little flash game; find locations on the world as accurately and quickly as possible for the most points… can you find Confuscius’ garden?
Nobody Knows Shoes →
by why the lucky stiff
ShiftSpace →
We all recall Hoodwink.d: ShiftSpace is very similar in concept only it has a much more active participating and modifying design. The site is well designed, the product looks very interesting, and I can’t want to start modifying sites, even my own, and sharing the extra goodies with others on the meta web.
On Ruby: Holiday Blogging Contest →
A contest to get bloggers to produce great practical how-tos directly related to their personal cool projects with a chance to win free books. I am looking forward to the various articles that come out of this, so I’ll be watching the comments pretty closely. I’m thinking I might even write a post or two myself, though my current projects are a bit uninteresting to some extent.
WatchScreencast: ruby.ide == iterm + screen + vim by drawohara
Ain't Nuthin But A Khai Thang - Y2Khai →
Wow, how did I miss this?
WatchEveryday Normal Guy by Jon Lajoie
Neon Bible →
interactive music video by The Arcade Fire. Great album, awesome idea.
Datamapper →
A Ruby Object Relational Mapper not based on the Active Record pattern. Cool stuff.
RubyCocoa →
Always wanted to fuck around with Cocoa, especially in Ruby.
ruby-dhkey Usage →
A sweet and short little usage sample.
Browsershots →
Test your web design in different browsers. Hella cool!
WatchMetalocalypse’s Duncan Hills Coffee Solo on 5min Life Videopedia
Talking About The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention... →
on YouTube. This could be a problem for activism, particularly the vague language of this broad and powerful bill.
Going Offline Without Your Favourite Subversion... →
Git to the rescue! I’ve actually been using Git for a few side projects of mine and am fairly satisfied with it. This is the best of both worlds.
Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange →
on WikiPedia
Ruby Inside →
the Ruby Weekly Update replacement, apparently. (R.I.P.)
DBrb : Ruby Database Access →
A simple DB access alternative to ORMs like ActiveRecord
PEP 333 -- Python Web Server Gateway Interface... →
The inspiration for Ruby’s Rack, and a very interesting read for those interested in framework/server interfacing and compliance between frameworks.
Beatboxing Flute and Cello at Union Square →
via YouTube
The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) →
The Simple Truth →
“The virtue of the pebbles is this; if we look into the bucket and see the bucket is empty of pebbles, we know the pastures are likewise empty of sheep. If we do not use the bucket, we must search and search until dark, lest one last sheep remain. Or if we stop our work early, then sometimes the next morning we find a dead sheep, for the wolves savage any sheep left outside. If we look in...
Jamis Buck and Marcel Molina Live Code Review →
from RubyConf2007
Squaring Zooko’s Triangle →
on LShift Ltd; very cool look at sharing public identity for security but also keeping it secure. Interesting methodology, perhaps I should write something to make the process easier?
NeoVictorian Computing →
by Mark Bernstein; a presentation on a new phase of programming, much like postmodern programming. Great points, and I feel very, very similarly regarding my own apathy towards any development at this time. (Then again, I should probably blame WoW too.)
Postmodern Programming →
on ElvisBrain; great reads on the future look of the philosophy of programming, and a good parallel to my outlook on reality and life.
“Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose...”
– Ulysses
The Mysteries of iCal, Revealed! →
on Ahruman’s Webthing; finding out how to make your own app’s docks icons changing (or other interesting things) while the app is not running. Very cool stuff.
Rack: a Ruby Webserver Interface →
Compact, lightweight, reasonably fast (actually, very fast), concurrent, etc. Great stuff. Runs on Mongrel.
“ ok, why the fuck is the disk in a VIRTUAL MACHINE not spinning up?”
– Quote #818068
Logical Analyzation of Christianity. →
1 tag
Rison →
JSON for URIs
Emperors and Pirates →
on the Tube.
Antediluvian Unix: A Guide to Unix Fundamentals →
A presentation on Slideshare (nifty little slideshow site)
Hot Chip - The Warning →
Video on YouTube.
Introduction to Utu and Ragel State Machines →
“Dammit this stuff is not hard, it’s just that nobody learns about state machines unless they take an obscure compiler design class. Very few universities teach state machines as a method of specifying the logic for a program. Even fewer cover Hierachical State Machines or State Charts.” A good overview of a novel idea and implementation and a good introduction to Ragel State...
Break the News Monopoly →
with The Real News
Italian Spiderman →
“Spider! Spider! Spider! Spider!”