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)

links for 2008-03-09

• cyclotram: Joe Weizenbaum dead at 85. ELIZA in denial.
  Won't someone think of the AIs?
  (tags: blog post funny AI JoeWeizenbaum homage eliza death humor)
• Your first AtomPub Server
  "How to write a simple Atom Publishing Protocol server using Abdera"
  (tags: tuotrial howto abdera APP atompub DanDiephouse atom REST server)
• InfoQ: Java Object Persistence: State of the Union
  InfoQ and OODBMS.org interview Mike Keith (Oracle TopLink), Ted Neward (Ted Neward :), Carl Rosenberger (db4o) and Craig Russell (Sun) about the current state of object persistence technology.
  (tags: article interview MikeKeith TedNeward CarlRosenberger CraigRussell InfoQ OODBM ORM object OO persistence OODB Java JPA RDBMS OODBMS mapping)
• Netbeans Plugin Development - jiitsunclub | Google Groups
  Resources about NetBeans plugin development.
  (tags: NetBeans plugin platform tutorial documentation catalog list Java Sun)
• NetBeans Wiki: NBDemoTicker
  This page describes a simple Beans Binding demo with NetBeans 6.
  (tags: tutorial howto NetBeans NB6 BeansBinding bean binding demo page wiki Sun swing client desktop Java)

links for 2008-03-08

• Abelson: LISP: a language for stratified design - Google Scholar
  From 1987: "We exhibit programs that illustrate the power of Lisp as a language for expressing the design and organization of computational systems. The examples are chosen to highlight the importance of abstraction in program design and ..."
  (tags: toread paper lisp DSL software architecture layering layer layers pattern HaroldAbelson GeraldJaySussman GeraldSussman GoogleScholar)

links for 2008-03-05

• Scala Blog: Where is Scala heading?
  In this short post, Jevgeni Kabanov captured very well what is also my main concern regarding the evolution of the Scala programming language. I'm looking forward to see how the community responds.
  (tags: blog post JevgeniKabanov Scala programming language evolution research market)

links for 2008-03-03

• Tokyo Cabinet: a modern implementation of DBM
  "A library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. There is neither concept of data tables nor data types. Records are organized in hash table or B+ tree."
  (tags: project opensource database hash hashtable BTree C library license:LGPL)

links for 2008-03-02

• JaTS - Java Transformation System
  Brazilian Pernanbuco University project for a code transformation language. It works by pattern matching on Java ASTs and applying template substitution. It is a purely syntatic process.
  (tags: project Java Brazil UFPB code refactoring transformation tool)