Archive: January 06, 2004
"Never again will government be allowed to spend money it doesn't have." (I don't have a permanent link yet)
It'd be nice if all of government was like that. Way to go Arnold for showing the way. Now let's see if he actually does it.
And the Washington Post, biased as usual, has the headline: Schwarzenegger Seeks to Raise Debt.
And in other news, Dennis Kucinich, always good for a laugh, shows a pie chart on radio.
Via muxway, Sapience is a web service you can use over XML-RPC to create those Turing-test images with text in them. Very neat.
Slashdot: Lightweight Scripting/Extension Languages. Great place to mine for languages you've never heard of before.
For instance, while I've heard of ICI, Lua, IO, etc., I'd never heard of Nasal, paxScript, Ch, or Cint before.
There was also a recent discussion on Advogato along the same lines.
Bill Venners' Artima newsletter just got sent out today, and I just finished reading the three pieces of his interviews with Ward Cunningham and Yukihiro Matsumoto.
They're all well worth a read:
I had planned to try this last year, but it was a no go. I just noticed that Oliver linked to the Amazing Facts Bible Reading Plan (PDF), which is nice because it gives you checkboxes to check off what you've read, it comes in a nice, easily printable format, and it has you read from four different parts of the Bible every day, so you won't get bogged down in some of the slower parts.  You get to read from the Gospels and the Psalms or Proverbs every day, and the rest brings you through the rest of the Old and New Testaments.
Regular Expressions tools:
(first three via Kayode, via Show Us Your <Regex>)
Update (Jan 14): Updated list can be found at http://keithdevens.com/wiki/Regular+expressions
I think weblog URLs should all have a date and a slug to identify their content. For instance, the URL for this post is http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2004/Jan/06/permalinks
Now, weblog URLs should always have the date in the URL. But in the absence of a slug, what's are good ways to uniquely identify a post? Possibilities include:
- A timestamp of the creation time, in hour/minute/second format
- A timestamp of the creation time, in Unix timestamp format
- An arbitrary unique ID for the post (usually just the primary key of whatever table stores your weblog entries)
- A GUID (some news sites use this for article IDs)
- A number indicating the order the post was posted in the day (first post is 1, etc.) I suppose you could do a textual representation of this as well ("one","two","forty-seven")
- Some serialization of the title, if one exists
- What else?
The Spirit Parser Framework:
Spirit is an object oriented recursive descent parser generator framework implemented using template meta-programming techniques. Expression templates allow us to approximate the syntax of Extended Backus Normal Form[1] (EBNF) completely in C++. Parser objects are composed through operator overloading and the result is a backtracking LL(inf) parser that is capable of parsing rather ambiguous grammars.
It's part of the Boost template library.
Also see: Backus Normal Form vs. Backus Naur Form
If I see any bright flashing animated gifs telling me I'm a WINNER, or anything else annoying, I set my browser to block everything from your server. So don't do that.
- How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web -- via Simon, via Peter
- Java-based Scripting Language of the Year 2003 Award - And The Winner Is... -- via Erik
- Tattoo troubles
- RFC 3092: Etymology of "Foo" -- via Leslie
- Here's a person with a highly unconstrained view of mankind (terminology from Sowell's book). -- via Leslie
- Jon Udell: The Document is the Database [to read]
- Jon Udell: Language Instincts [to read]
- TransQuery -- XSL Transformations as Query Language
- Parsed XML for Zope
- Macworld Keynote (9am PT) -- via Steve
- Tim Bray's series on the TPSM is getting interesting. TPSM 4: Management Approval
- Some numbers showing how much spending has increased under Bush. BAD
- Yahoo to drop Google, compete directly
- Where Will There Be War in 2004? -- via Glenn
- Andrew Sullivan endorses Dean: "Dean represents an opportunity for honesty, for relief, for a true cultural clash. At this point, in this divided nation, I think it's riskier to avoid that clash than to give it an opportunity to be explored and democratically decided." -- via IP
- The Paradox of Choice
- Babu: book review: Intepreter of Maladies
- This seems like something I'd be very interested in reading: Understanding the New Deal Court
- Cox & Forkum have interesting stuff about the BAM earthquake. Along with interesting quotes, including this from Thomas Sowell: "Those who disdain wealth as crass materialism need to understand that wealth is one of the biggest life-saving factors in the world."
- Sterling: My Beef with MySQL's License
- Chris Langreiter has stuff on statistics
- Chris Langreiter has stuff from Steven Wolfram that I want to read, particularly his presentation on The Past and Future of Scientific Computing
- Martin Fowler: BuildLanguage
- Rake, Ruby make
- Peace Breaks Out? by Glenn Reynolds
- The Nitrogen Manifesto (PDF). Nitrogen is an open-source C++ interface to Carbon, though according to the project page, it's only still in Alpha.
- Whisper -- "Whisper is C++ application framework for the Mac and Windows. Unlike most frameworks it takes advantage of the standard library, design by contract, and modern C++ idioms."
- Doc Scrubber -- "Analyze and scrub hidden and potentially embarassing data in Word documents" -- via Kayode
- Fontifier (supposedly lets you create a custom font based on your handwriting, but the site is down) -- via Kayode
- Blair: I'll take Britain into euro by 2007
- AI on the Web
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