Archive: December 22, 2008

Monday, December 22, 2008

1. Stevey's Blog Rants: Rhinos and Tigers (via). A presentation about the Rhino Javascript engine on the JVM. To finish reading.

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2. use Perl | Perl 5 now uses Git for version control.

   In true open source style, Sam Vilain converted Perl's history from Perforce to Git. He did the work both in his spare time and in time donated by his employer, Catalyst IT. He spent more than a year building custom tools to transform 21 years of Perl history into the first ever unified repository of every single change to Perl. In addition to changes from Perforce, Sam patched together a comprehensive view of Perl's history incorporating publicly available snapshot releases, changes from historical mailing list archives and patch sets recovered from the hard drives of previous Perl release engineers.

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3. Spicytuna » Blog Archive » Higher Learning Achievement Guide. Sheesh, so that's what people have been talking about. What a strange achievement.

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4. Little Green Footballs - What Would Leo Szilard Do? To read.

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5. Washington Times - EXCLUSIVE: Bush, Cheney comforted troops privately:

   But the size and scope of Mr. Bush's and Mr. Cheney's private endeavors to meet with wounded soliders and families of the fallen far exceed anything that has been witnessed publicly, according to interviews with more than a dozen officials familiar with the effort.
   
   "People say, 'Why would you do that?'" the president said in an Oval Office interview with The Washington Times on Friday. "And the answer is: This is my duty. The president is commander in chief, but the president is often comforter in chief, as well. It is my duty to be - to try to comfort as best as I humanly can a loved one who is in anguish."
   
   Mr. Bush, for instance, has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice. The task, along with meeting family members of troops killed in action, has been so wrenching - balancing the anger, grief and pride of families coping with the loss symbolized by a flag-draped coffin - that the president often leaned on his wife, Laura, for emotional support.
   
   "I lean on the Almighty and Laura," Mr. Bush said in the interview.

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6. FOXNews.com - Ballot Madness: Tipping the Scales in Minnesota's Senate Recount - Opinion. I'm trying to remember the election a few years ago where it was obviously stolen for the Democrat on recount, but my memory is failing me.

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