Archive: October 14, 2005

Friday, October 14, 2005

1. I just played a guy in chess (online) who was rated a fair amount higher than me, and I surprised him with a move. After resigning, he called it "beautiful". What a compliment.

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2. Krzysztof Cwalina : Delegate-Based APIs, (via, via, via, but linked to earlier). Old post, but still, C# is becoming more like Ruby (which is a good thing). I liked the one guy's comment -- "couldn't you have just called ConvertAll map like everyone else?"

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3. Joel on Software: From the Good-Intentions Department. Interesting bit comparing Dell getting into servers with JetBlue flying a shuttle between NY and Boston.

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4. Simon links to some interesting posts on the MySpace worm, which I hadn't even heard of until now. Main page from the author, how he got around MySpace's protections, and some articles.

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5. Django's design philosophies, via Simon.

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6. Terminilogical Inexactitude: Don Miguel Ruiz's - The Four Agreements

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7. EclipseFP - Functional programming support for Eclipse. Currently supports Haskell and OCaml. Via Michael.

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