Inklings: a tumblelog

Good sleep, good learning, good life

🕑 2004-12-01T02:01:37+00:00; via del.icio.us; try the Wayback Machine | edit

I like sleeping: I only wish I could get enough of it.

Optimizing JavaScript for Execution Speed

🕑 2004-12-01T18:59:44+00:00; via simon.incutio.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Python 2.4 out.

🕑 2004-12-01T19:00:04+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Ruthsarian Layouts

🕑 2004-12-01T20:40:37+00:00; via www.forgetfoo.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Using Java Reflection

🕑 2004-12-01T21:50:06+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Nebulus

🕑 2004-12-01T21:57:04+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

An almost exact Flash rendition of the C-64 classic. Hewson rocked!

The Bosco Action Agency

🕑 2004-12-01T21:59:36+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

This evil renegade from Irish ’80s children’s TV must be stopped!

Joelogon's Foolproof Guide to Making Any Woman Your Platonic Friend

🕑 2004-12-01T22:06:54+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

If I wasn’t depressed beforehand, I am now.

Inventing a language for naming people and places

🕑 2004-12-01T22:55:57+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Trusting a Chaotic Future

🕑 2004-12-01T23:57:52+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The synth look and feel: what Sun should do next

🕑 2004-12-02T00:02:31+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Convert Metal over to it, that’s what, says Diego. Sorry about all these old links: I’m clearing stuff out.

CFCUnit: A unit testing framework for ColdFusion MX.

🕑 2004-12-02T00:06:32+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

But we’re still wedded to developing on CF5 here at work, so it’s not much use to me yet. :-(

A potential vaccine for HIV?

🕑 2004-12-02T00:24:55+00:00; via slashdot.org; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Dustin is from Leitrim!

🕑 2004-12-02T00:26:36+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The shocking truth revealed!

DB Designer 4: A database design tool for MySQL

🕑 2004-12-02T00:30:52+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

🕑 2004-12-02T00:33:39+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The New Agnosticism? An old word putting forth new shoots: agnosticism is being tugged toward faith.

🕑 2004-12-02T00:36:58+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Message Threading

🕑 2004-12-02T00:43:18+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

RoboDump

🕑 2004-12-02T00:55:01+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

RoboDump is a robot. Sort of. And it poops. Sort of. Forever. A horrible, never-ending bowel movement complete with straining grunts, horrific gas, splashes, and pee sounds.

How delightfully juvenile!

ShoppingBill.com

🕑 2004-12-02T01:10:52+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Compares prices from gouging irish supermarkets to find out which one is gouging least.

Skeptical Views of Christianity and the Bible

🕑 2004-12-02T01:11:20+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The Myth of Economic Superiority

🕑 2004-12-02T01:13:53+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The UniLang Community

🕑 2004-12-02T01:14:37+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

What Became of Conservatives?

🕑 2004-12-02T01:16:07+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Documentation for the Windows Template Library (WTL)

🕑 2004-12-02T01:17:16+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A Programmer's Guide to the Mind

🕑 2004-12-02T01:25:48+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

I can’t remember where I got some of these from, so sorry!

Spring and Hibernate, Simplify the DAO layer

🕑 2004-12-02T01:28:10+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Create XP-style Icons Using Illustrator or Freehand

🕑 2004-12-02T02:06:59+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

MP3 downloads of songs played by John Peel

🕑 2004-12-02T02:08:14+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

When should we use classes?

🕑 2004-12-02T02:49:26+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

XHTML Friends Network

🕑 2004-12-02T02:51:09+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Efficient Editing with VIM

🕑 2004-12-02T02:53:27+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

PDFBox

🕑 2004-12-07T14:18:11+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

PDFBox is a Java PDF Library. This project will allow access to all of the components in a PDF document. More PDF manipulation features will be added as the project matures. This ships with a utility to take a PDF document and output a text file.

ActiveCVS: an implementation of the Microsoft SCC API

🕑 2004-12-08T21:10:11+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A potentially excellent, but far from complete SCC API proxy for CVS. Check out the author’s older CVSCC while you’re at it.

Generating a (make-believe) coastline

🕑 2004-12-09T15:35:54+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Workrave

🕑 2004-12-10T19:15:25+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit.

FreeDOS

🕑 2004-12-10T23:26:10+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

SEAL

🕑 2004-12-10T23:29:37+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A 32-bit GUI for DOS

FOX Toolkit

🕑 2004-12-11T22:57:29+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

An alternative to wxWidgets.

Enigmail

🕑 2004-12-12T01:01:54+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Hooks to allow GnuPG to be used with Thunderbird.

WinSCP

🕑 2004-12-12T01:21:17+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A graphical SFTP and SCP client for Windows.

Doogle

🕑 2004-12-13T11:46:33+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The feckin’ search engine of Ireland! :-)

JavaScript Object Notation

🕑 2004-12-13T12:55:04+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format.

Useful for doing callbacks to the server to fetch updates for data.

JSON-RPC

🕑 2004-12-13T13:07:07+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Using JSON to implement something like XML-RPC.

Be a good lamarckian froggie!

🕑 2004-12-14T19:33:28+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Natural evolution might be Darwinian, but Cultural evolution is Lamarckian. And so is software! Excellent post.

PERST

🕑 2004-12-15T20:46:19+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

An embedded OODBMS in Java and C#.

Trac

🕑 2004-12-15T20:51:09+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Trac is a wiki and bug tracker built on top of SQLite, Subversion, and Python.

SubWiki

🕑 2004-12-15T21:01:41+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A wiki built using a Subversion repository.

Playing Bayesian Games (PDF)

🕑 2004-12-15T23:35:44+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Vomit Comet retired.

🕑 2004-12-21T20:34:12+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

HMO-On-A-Roll

🕑 2004-12-21T20:55:59+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Duct Tape: surely a wonder of modern medical science!

hsqldb

🕑 2004-12-21T21:35:59+00:00; via keithdevens.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Lightweight 100% Java SQL Database Engine

Event Driven Programming using Template Specializations in C++

🕑 2004-12-22T00:35:51+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Static versus Dynamic Event Handlers in C++

🕑 2004-12-22T00:36:20+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Deontology vs. Consequentialism

🕑 2004-12-22T02:41:16+00:00; via catallarchy.net; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Well worth a read, along with the article I got it from.

Optimizing JavaScript

🕑 2004-12-22T03:01:46+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

G4U: Harddisk Image Cloning for PCs

🕑 2004-12-22T03:07:12+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Like Norton Ghost, but it doesn’t cost a bomb!

Project Management Checklist

🕑 2004-12-22T03:12:43+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Considerations in Developing ColdFusion Applications in Enterprise and Government Organizations

🕑 2004-12-22T03:14:08+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Judy Arrays

🕑 2004-12-22T03:20:50+00:00; via keithdevens.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Maybe it’s just me, but this seems a little too good to be true.

Sciral Consistency

🕑 2004-12-22T03:24:21+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Half-way between a calendar and a to-do list, but for things that occur regularly, but don’t have strong deadlines.

Do-It-Yourself GTD Planner v0.8

🕑 2004-12-22T03:26:04+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Cormac’s got this book, and I really ought to read it.

Unit Test More Efficiently with Mock Object Alternatives

🕑 2004-12-22T03:38:06+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The first tast of Liberty

🕑 2004-12-22T03:51:46+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Developing in Java with the open alternative to MS Passport

Subversion best practices

🕑 2004-12-22T03:54:50+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Stephen Pinker on Uniting Techies and Fuzzies

🕑 2004-12-22T04:02:46+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The Official Site of Benjamin J Heckendorn

🕑 2004-12-22T04:05:41+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The guy who gave up portable PlayStations before Sony did.

Redirect after GET

🕑 2004-12-22T04:11:15+00:00; via keithdevens.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Cornell Note Taking System for Seminars and Conferences

🕑 2004-12-22T04:11:56+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Philosophy Papers Online

🕑 2004-12-22T04:14:39+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Abykus

🕑 2004-12-22T04:33:35+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

An “object-oriented” spreadsheet for Windows

Cocoa Style

🕑 2004-12-22T04:35:02+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Good advice in most languages, and with most toolkits, not just Objective-C and Cocoa.

The Graphing Calculator Story

🕑 2004-12-23T02:31:57+00:00; via farm.tucows.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

This must surely go down in programmer folklore as one of the great stories, maybe even up there with the Legend of Mel.

Podcasting definition on Wikipaedia

🕑 2004-12-27T22:39:13+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Because my parents got an iPod for me.

iPodder.org: The resource for the iPod platform.

🕑 2004-12-27T22:41:15+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Spam Stopgap Extreme

🕑 2004-12-29T00:45:05+00:00; via keithdevens.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

GMail Drive

🕑 2004-12-29T03:15:58+00:00; via www.digitalhobbit.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Like GMailFS, except for Windows. I’m not sure if you can use it like any other drive on the command line though.

Radeox

🕑 2004-12-29T03:29:09+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A wiki rendering engine written in Java.

DocUtils

🕑 2004-12-29T04:43:06+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Documentation processing tools in Python.

Functional Unparsing

🕑 2004-12-29T21:48:26+00:00; via blog.willbenton.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A terribly clever, and type-safe, method of implementing a printf() style function in ML.

HOWTO on keeping your iPod battery performance up

🕑 2004-12-29T21:52:30+00:00; via blog.willbenton.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Mac-oriented, but it might have some hints on how I can make efficient use of the charge in mine too.