Inklings: 2005-07

And better for it. Sure, it might lead to a lower per capita GDP if measured by year (rather than by hour worked), but it’s better to work to live than live to work.

Bomb blast in London Underground

🕑 2005-07-07T12:09:14+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

This is sick!

Video of The Chalet's song "Feel the Machine"

🕑 2005-07-07T12:21:25+00:00; via www.waxy.org; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Excellent!

My Battlefield 2 stats.

🕑 2005-07-07T17:13:21+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

My account seems to break Dan’s code, probably ‘cause I haven’t been able to play it enough. I’ve a lot of practice to do!

Ten Essential Development Practices

🕑 2005-07-18T21:00:47+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Crazy Frog Baseball

🕑 2005-07-20T17:16:51+00:00; via www.theregister.co.uk; try the Wayback Machine | edit

There’s nothing better than beating the wee fecker to death. Me? Evil? Noo!

Treaty gives CIA powers over Irish citizens

🕑 2005-07-21T19:36:30+00:00; via backseatdrivers.blogspot.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The weasel is at it again. Does he not realise that this treaty is unconstituional, infringing on our fundamental rights as guaranteed by the constitution? It infringes on my right to privacy, right to fair procedures, right to personal piberty (most importantly), and (potentially, given the current US Attorney General) right to bodily integrity. I’m disgusted!

XBoard and WinBoard

🕑 2005-07-21T19:53:28+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Two interfaces for the likes of crafty and GNU chess.

Chess Engine Communication Protocol

🕑 2005-07-21T19:55:42+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Gorilla Cursor Thief

🕑 2005-07-21T21:10:50+00:00; via tcal.net; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Excellent wee flash game. And you don’t need to know japanese to understand it.

Exact String Matching Algorithms

🕑 2005-07-21T21:48:28+00:00; via keithdevens.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

How to get positive results from calls to support hotlines/callcentres

🕑 2005-07-21T22:15:43+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

PEP 333: Python Web Server Gateway Interface v1.0

🕑 2005-07-21T22:16:22+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

NextAction

🕑 2005-07-21T22:17:41+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Next Action is a Getting Things Done todo-list tracking tool. It’s a personal database for your GTD info.

And it’s all JavaScript.

Weak Brits, Tough French

🕑 2005-07-21T22:24:27+00:00; via forgetfoo.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

So maybe the French aren’t so “run and hide” as some make them out to be.

The NATO Software Engineering Conferences

🕑 2005-07-21T22:25:20+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Thirty-five years later, and we still haven’t learned anything. :-(

Good Experience Games

🕑 2005-07-21T22:28:09+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A bunch of most excellent online games.

Password Hashing

🕑 2005-07-21T22:29:08+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

PEAR PHP Coding Standards

🕑 2005-07-21T22:29:52+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The Horde Project

🕑 2005-07-21T22:30:31+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Drools

🕑 2005-07-21T22:32:34+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Drools is a Rules Engine implementation based on Charles Forgy’s Rete algorithm tailored for the Java language.

MS SQL Server to FireBird migration

🕑 2005-07-21T22:36:06+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Freedroid

🕑 2005-07-21T22:36:37+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A free Paradroid clone.

Getting Over Bad Habits

🕑 2005-07-21T22:37:36+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

As a programmer, that is.

Continuations != continuations

🕑 2005-07-21T22:43:00+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Direct Manipulation Using JavaScript and CSS

🕑 2005-07-21T22:44:01+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Editing in place is something I want in my blog, dogdamnit! :-)

Smart vs. Dumb Templates

🕑 2005-07-21T22:44:17+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

I have a reader!

🕑 2005-07-22T03:01:09+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

So who are you, mysterious individual? :-)

Adobe/Macromedia deal gets scrutiny from DOJ

🕑 2005-07-22T16:36:20+00:00; via www.petefreitag.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

"Hints on Programming Language Design" by C.A.R Hoare

🕑 2005-07-23T22:48:32+00:00; via www.softwareas.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A quick overview of Lexical-Functional Grammar

🕑 2005-07-24T02:46:03+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Only of interest if you like linguistics or the like.

Atom 1.0 Draft Specification

🕑 2005-07-25T13:21:56+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Programming the Atari 2600

🕑 2005-07-25T13:23:24+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Old Kuro5hin article. I’m doing a link cleanup.

Multithreaded Programming: Improving Performance through Threads (pthreads Tutorial)

🕑 2005-07-25T13:24:51+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Threading is Evil: Making it easier to multiplex IO

🕑 2005-07-25T13:25:06+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Software Engineering Proverbs

🕑 2005-07-25T13:26:58+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

From an old Multician

Three Questions About Each Bug You Find

🕑 2005-07-25T13:28:46+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Who Do We Work For?

🕑 2005-07-25T18:20:23+00:00; via rc3.org; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Niceforms

🕑 2005-07-26T12:19:49+00:00; via farm.tucows.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Styling forms so that they don’t look like ass.

Hitting the High Notes

🕑 2005-07-26T12:20:37+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Joel Spolsky on programmer quality.

Shoring Up the Western Front

🕑 2005-07-26T12:40:58+00:00; via backseatdrivers.blogspot.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Some ignorant spiel from the WSJ, attempting to make out that after thousands of years of war and terrorism on, against, and between various european countries, that we’ve all given up, shut up shop, and are letting terrorists ride roughshod over us. This stinks of propaganda.