Teh blog lookz sexeh!
Big thanks to Marko Kršul (the creative) and Marko Dugonjić (teh c0d3R). If you like the theme, you can grab it here, it comes in 2 flavors.
I’ve modified some font-sizes for now, and plan on doing some other stuff later on.
Is “version targeting” the future of standards compliant web development?
According to some prominent voices in the community, it will be.
After a hefty amount of initial bitching and moaning about Microsoft’s proposal (more here: Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8), the dust has settled. People are coming to their senses, reading and comprehending what is being said, and everyone’s focused on the bigger picture. Hoooraay!
Russ Cox: Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast
This is a tale of two approaches to regular expression matching. One of them is in widespread use in the standard interpreters for many languages, including Perl. The other is used only in a few places, notably most implementations of awk and grep. The two approaches have wildly different performance characteristics:
An awesome paper on regex performance and implementation details.
The Croatian Customs office, part 2
The fun never ends here in Croatia. Just came back from the post office, where I picked up my latest Threadless order. Guess how much I had to pay to pick it up this time?
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Yahoo implementing OpenID – finally!
The OpenID project always seemed worthy of attention, it just needed a big company attached to it. That day finally arrived — Yahoo meets OpenID. This will change the way people login to various sites & services and how they perceive their online identities.
As true today as it was way back in the days
Stumbled upon an article by Orson Scott Card, published in Windows Sources, March 1995, p. 208.
The article opens up with something that rang so true:
The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and marketing types – and vice versa. Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When you’re caught up in it, nothing else matters.
The article is definitely worth a read.
What’s wrong with CS research @ Unqualified Reservations
Just finished reading this massive wall of text titled What’s wrong with CS research. After reading the whole thing I must admit I’m impressed. Hitting the nail on the head on so many issues at once. And its funny too, in a geeky kind of way, I suppose, like this:
Bruce, the CTO, promptly said: “if Alain [the CEO] heard you use that word, he’d rip off your head and spit down your neck.”
I said, “I take back everything bad I ever said about Alain.”
Richard Stallman Cranking Dat Soulja Boy
How and why this exists is beyond me, but it sure seems like they’re having tons of fun out there in the USA…
Sun to Acquire MySQL
It’s all over the news finally. I find a hefty 1 billion US$ sum to be a rather nice & clever exit strategy :)
More power to them!
Anyway, here’s the official press release, and a much nicer, cleaner (yet, still a PR-ish) overview of the whole thing on Kaj Arnö’s blog.
UPDATE: Jonathan Schwartz’s blog has a sweet statement I’d like to quote:
But the biggest news of the day is… we’re putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP.
UPDATE #2: John C. Dvorak’s second opinion: The deal stinks and is a ploy from Oracle to shut MySQL down. Interesting. And my kind of paranoid. The comments on marketwatch are, of course, ranging from funny to absurdly stupid.
Dvorak sure did plant a nice idea to the people, and get much publicity out of it.
Nice job, John.
xkcd – Couple
The title reads: “Facebook defines relationships. ‘Yeah, we would have broken up last night, but the net connection was down.'”