St. Patty's Day Linkdump

My favourite St. Patty's Day T-Shirt seen at the mall today: A green T-shirt with a shamrock and the words: "I'm a drinker, not a fighter".

BTW, I now have a Linkdump AppleScript for Firefox too. It iterates through the tabs of the frontmost window and builds links for each of them, then makes a new post in MarsEdit and sets the body of the new post to that HTML. If you want it, and/or my similar script for linkdumping NetNewsWire tabs, let me know.

I'd make a Safari version, but I don't use it anymore. I'll probably give Safari another shot when Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard comes out.

Oh, and Steve, guess how I run my Firefox Linkdump script? Using QuickSilver... yup, I've switched from Launchbar as per your recommendation. I'm still not completely sold on it, but for now, it's doing what I was using Launchbar for, and it seems faster, so for now, QS stays.

davidbau.com: Python String Functions - make sure to read the comments, I agree that while it may be "cool" that Python can adapt itself to that syntax, it's not a good solution to nearly any Python programming problem or software design problem.

Antonio Cangiano: Haskell Eye for the Ruby Guy

Topher Cyll: If It's Not Nailed Down, Steal It (Pattern Matching, S-Expressions, and Domain Specific Languages in Ruby)

I found that link completely by accident looking on Google for something completely unrelated to programming (and nails and stealing, btw! ;-)).

Bitwise Magazine: What’s Wrong With Ruby?

Meurig Sage: Regular Expressions in Haskell

Fuzzy Future: The Developer Cheat Sheet Compilation

reddit: FINE: I will look at LISP. Where do I start?

PLT Scheme

Project Euler

ExtremeTech: SanDisk Samples 32-Gbyte Flash Drive, Predicts Price Drops

The difference between PHP and Python - well, one difference.

The Rails Way - thanks to Steve (the original Redmonk) for the link - he aptly compared this site to Wil Shipley's Pimp my Code series...

O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2007

Should I go to WWDC 2007 or OSCON 2007? WWDC has student scholarships... I can't find any information on the OSCON site about student rates, but going to Portland for a week would be a lot cheaper than San Francisco... then again, OSCON would probably cost about the same after paying for a ticket. So which is a better use of my time and money?

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The Third Bit: Beautiful Code

Simon Peyton Jones: Beautiful concurrency

Slashdot: Is Computer Science Dead?

I shouldn't even give that post publicity by linking to it but I think it's so ridiculous it's worth reading for the comic value alone. It's like asking if cooking is dead because frozen TV dinners have become so delicious and heathy.

CamWorld: An Update! Wow, an Update!

TidBITS: Distributing Podcasts, Other Downloads with Pando

The Register: Bruce Sterling gives blogs 10 years to live

Smashing Magazine: CSS-Based Navigation Menus: Modern Solutions

Josh Lucas: Becoming a Starfish

RED HERRING: Stan Lee Media Sues Marvel: $5B - note that Stan Lee is not involved in this suit. What a mess.

Macworld: Editors' Notes: The limits of Apple's warranty

Giles Bowkett: The Business Case For Firefox

I love it. The utter despair of dealing with IE as a web developer is one of the reasons I decided to go back to school (seriously). I definitely agree with the idea that IE support for web sites/applications should be an explicit and optional line item in estimates.

Written on March 17, 2007