Archive: October 19, 2005

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

1. ONDotnet.com: C#: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: An Interview with Anders Hejlsberg, Part 1, via PLNews.

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2. Hans Nowak on Ruby vs. Python:

   After some more hacking on Ruby, it becomes all the more obvious that it's messy in many ways. And that's one of the reasons why it's going to outpace Python.

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3. Show, don't tell. Now that's a good life lesson. Via Paul Hammond.

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4. ABC News: 'The Simpsons' Exported to Middle East -- Minus Bacon, Beer. This sounds almost like something out of The Onion.

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Collected BNF for URI

Collected BNF for URI. PHP's urlencode function escapes more than is necessary specifically for the path component of a URL. So things like the colon get escaped when they don't have to be:

http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2005/Oct/19/James-4%3A13-17
http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2005/Oct/19/James-4:13-17

Gonna write my own escaper based on the BNF that just works for paths so that my slugs won't be so ugly when they contain characters that are invalid in certain components of the URL, but not the path.

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08:49 (utc-5)

 

1. Saddam's trial began today in Iraq. Athena at Terrorism Unveiled posts about it.

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2. I looked for this passage last night about making plans. It took me a while to find because I searched for "God's will" instead of "Lord's will". James 4:13-17:

   Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

   I wonder how much this passage admonishes against merely boasting about your plans, or more generally about making plans without acknowledging God's will in them coming to pass or not.

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