Computing

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Thinking, typing and the mysterious case of the missing printouts

"Now here is the weird thing: I can honestly say it has been at least a decade since I last printed out any piece of software bigger than a couple of pages in size." -- Thinking, typing and the mysterious case of the missing printouts

Jython 2.2!

Hey! Jython 2.2 has been released.

This is great news for Jython in particular, Python in general and for the JVM in perpetuity.

PDF and HTML: Splitting the difference

I never thought I would hear myself saying this, but I think the world needs another file format for storing images. PDF and HTML: Splitting the difference."

When Claire and Dave met Chris the typographer

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/19/what-a-difference-a-dot-makes.

Cute.

Long Bets

Long Bets eh?

Ok. I'll play.

HDF5

Scala

IDEs driven MetaProgramming (XML representations of ASTs, XQuery over source code, XML processing pipelines for source-to-source refactoring)

Second Life

Helium 3:-)

The rush of tools to the hand

"The degree to which information technology can truly help problem X is inversely proportional to the enthusiasm with which the average young software developer approaches the problem." -- The rush of tools to the hand