links for 2008-05-08

• gdata-scala-client - Google Code
  The Google Data Scala client library allows client software to connect to Google Services through the Google Data API protocol. It makes it easy to retrieve and modify data exposed by services[], without worrying about the underlying XML representation or
  (tags: project Scala opensource API atom atompub APP GoogleData google license:APL)

links for 2008-04-30

• David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms: The Book
  Full text available online
  (tags: DavidMacKay book information theory InformationTheory algorithms online free DataMining computerscience)

links for 2008-04-28

• InfoQ: Leveraging the Web for Services at Yahoo!
  Integration between Yahoo! properties is done through REST web services intermediated by sophisticated http caches.
  (tags: http MarkNottingham presentation InfoQ REST cache caching Squid SOA Yahoo! Yahoo)

links for 2008-04-23

• method handles in a nutshell : John Rose @ Sun
  This note gives the essential outlines of a design for method handles, a way to name and interconnect methods without regard to method type or placement, and with full type safety and native execution speed. We will do this in three and a half swift movem
  (tags: toread lang.net JohnRose JVM VM method MethodHandle MethodHandles blog post sun)

links for 2008-04-15

• BBC NEWS | Health | Daily caffeine 'protects brain'
  "Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests". Good to know...
  (tags: article news BBC science health coffee caffeine food brain interesting neurology Alzheimer dementia cholesterol JonathanGeiger)
• Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms
  Team A came up with a very sophisticated algorithm using the Netflix data. Team B used a very simple algorithm, but they added in additional data beyond the Netflix set: information []from the [] IMDB. Guess which team did better?
  (tags: blog post data datamining AnandRajaraman algorithm Stanford BI algorithms competition efficiency recommendations)
• Area Man Makes It Through Day | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
  The Onion rocks!
  (tags: funny fake news story TheOnion humor comedy)
• Progress of Scala for NetBeans - with a New Written Lexer and Parser : Caoyuan's Blog
  Caoyuan is rewriting the Scala plugin for NetBeans using the Rats! parser. I just wonder how far along he will get with the type system without plugging into the official compiler; Scala is not a small language...
  (tags: blog post Scala IDE plugin NetBeans CaoyuanDeng Rats!)

links for 2008-04-13

• txt2re: headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator
  Generate REGEXes from sample text.
  (tags: tool web regex regexp generator text util)

links for 2008-04-11

• ruby-on-rails-data-relationships.png (PNG Image, 808x936 pixels)
  Examples in a diagram.
  (tags: rails RoR ruby ActiveRecord diagram graphic mvc model via:fck)
• Signature Survey - A Method for Browsing Unfamiliar Code
  Use very simple scripts to strip source files to their bare essentials in order to look for interesting patterns. By the king of brilliant low-fi ideas himself, Ward Cunningham.
  (tags: article paper WardCunningham signature source code visualization browsing reengineering script OOPSLA 2001 tip technique)

links for 2008-04-10

• Computer Science Unplugged - Home
  Great way to teach CS concepts to children. Have them learn error detection through card tricks, search algorithms by playing battleship, or sorting networks by running around.
  (tags: site teaching education CS computerscience computing kids children programming activity)
• Software Architecture Group (HPI)
  COLA is part of Alan Kay's and Ian Piumarta's STEPS project.This is a tutorial for implementing brainf*ck in COLA
  (tags: MichaelHaupt Cola Pepsi viewpoints STEPS tutorial language parser parsing compiler interpreter implementation VRI IanPiumarta research)

links for 2008-03-20

• InfoQ: GitHub - Rails-based Git repository hosting
  "GitHub hosts git repositories and provides a web interface to it, but contrary to other such services like SourceForge or Google Code, a unique selling point of GitHub is the easy forking of other projects."
  (tags: InfoQ news post project opensource Git GitHub service tool repository system storage VCS SCM forking fork ChrisWanstrath)
• Lockhart's Lament
  Everyone has already linked to this, but, man, this guy can rant!
  (tags: mathematics math education Lockhart rant PaulLockhart teaching essay paper column)
• Ruminations of a Programmer: Are you fully using your Static Typing ?
  An example of Java Generics "adding type-safety" to domains where heavy use of reflection traditionally implied the possibility of runtime type errors. The example given is Guice dependency injection.
  (tags: blog post DebasishGhosh java typing StaticTyping tip technique DI DependencyInjection idiom pattern reflection metaprogramming Guice Spring)

links for 2008-03-18

• Lambda Calculus and A++: Basic Concepts
  "In this article the importance of the Lambda Calculus is extended to non-functional languages like Java, C, and C++ as well. The article uses A++, a programming language directly derived from the LC."
  (tags: book online free programming language LC LambdaCalculus A++ semantics GeorgLoczewski)
• Martian Headsets - Joel on Software
  Another important article from Joel that will spark discussions all over the blogosphere. My take: standards without representative tests and a reference implementation shouldn't be called standards.
  (tags: article Joel standard standards web html webdev w3c ie ie8 browser compatibility evolution PostelPrinciple JoelSpolsky)

links for 2008-03-15

• BOFH Excuse Generator
  What it says on the tin...
  (tags: funny site generator sysadmin infra BOFH excuse)
• Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry
  Cool. It will be interesting to see how this kind of tech will interplay with SEO.
  (tags: blog post TechCrunch MichaelArrington Yahoo search semanticweb web2.0 web3.0 socialgraph socialsoftware microformats RDF hCard hCalendar hReview hAtom XFN DublinCore CreativeCommons CC FOAF GeoRSS MediaRSS standard standards technology web news metadata microformat OpenSearch)
• research!rsc: Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit
  Interesting trick to avoid the cost of initializing arrays. The trade-off is a doubling in memory usage, which may be acceptable depending on the algorithm.
  (tags: blog post article data DataStructure DataStructures array algorithm set SparseSet memory optimization trick tip technique)

links for 2008-03-14

• Steps Toward The Reinvention of Programming | Lambda the Ultimate
  Some links to literature regarding dynamic (re)linking for statically typed languages.
  (tags: forum thread LtU post PaulSnively language REPL type typing dynamic dynamicity linking compilation compiler linker Alice ML Acute)

links for 2008-03-13

• GoEnglish.com Idioms
  English idiomatic expressions -- may come in handy.
  (tags: site tool natural language English idiom idioms expression expressions catalog list collection slang writing)
• InfoQ: Using AOP in the Enterprise
  Adrian Colyer presents some use cases and suggests "patterns" for applying AOP to fulfill software requirements. He also talks a bit about Spring 2.5 AOP improvements.
  (tags: AOP presentation video InfoQ AdrianColyer Spring AspectJ software architecture)

links for 2008-03-12

• [Ask LTU] How to implement concurrent languages ? | Lambda the Ultimate
  Comment on LtU with several pointers regarding implementation of threading in PLs.
  (tags: LtU comment NeelakantanKrishnaswami neelk thread post forum concurrency programming language PL link links catalog list threads threading GreenThread implementation theory)

links for 2008-03-10

• VirtualBox on Solaris - Virtualization Software - Installing VirtualBox on Solaris 10 --- (UNIX System Administration: Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, BSD)
  Cool tutorial on how to use VirtualBox under a Solaris host. Had I found this sooner, a lot of time wasted chasing libs could've been prevented.
  (tags: blog post tutorial howto Solaris indiana OpenSolaris VirtualBox virtualization MihaiCriveti sysadmin infra)