Curated
Learn You a Haskell
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - if you learned Ruby via The Poignant Guide, you’ll like this. Plus, Haskell does cool stuff to your brain.
Garrett's life, yesterday
My Day, Yesterday - a glimpse into the world of Garrett Murray. Best ninety seconds of video I’ve seen all week. If you like it and/or my style of humor, you’ll like his Qwick Reviews too.
Launch the missiles!
The A-Z of Programming Languages: Haskell - a great interview with the awesome Simon Peyton-Jones on Haskell. I love his use of the “launch the missiles!” metaphor for thinking about side-effects and IO in programs. Via projectionist.
JBox2D equals fun
JBox2D is a port of a C++ physics engine to Java. Being Java means you can use it in Processing. Being Processing means you can use it for fun. And the demos, behold, they are fun!
Rich Kilmer speaketh
Ruby’s Best Feature? Rich Kilmer is one of those uncanny developers who can crank out orders of magnitude more good code than your average developer. When he speaks, I always listen.
Awesome writing
I want to take that video behind the middle school and get it pregnant.
You need more Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett is quite possibly one of Texas' finest exports. If you’re not hip then you’re missing out. Heck, I was missing out; consider a couple of his appearances on the Johnny Carson show.
Make it a…cheeseburger.
Do I wish that I could sing like Francine Reed or Lyle Lovett? Every day.
Our trip to Germany in pictures
Here are four of my favorite pictures from our trip to Germany:
From top to bottom we’ve got the cool elevator at BMW Welt with glass doors, an old building in Munich with rather modern wings added on, a pygmy hippo at the Berlin zoo and a cool video wall at the BMW museum showing numbers that might appear as model numbers.
You can “look at all my pictures”:flickr.com/photos/th… or “check out”:flickr.com/photos/co… “Courtney’s”:flickr.com/photos/co… “pictures”:flickr.com/photos/co…
Pretty Parallax
jParallax - a JavaScript gizmo for composing images using a parallax effect. In other words, insanely cool.
"with" for Ruby
Use with caution:
That said, @with@ is discouraged in JavaScript. If you can, its better to have methods return @self@ so you can chain like so: @people.get_dressed.put_on_music.and_party!@
Last.fm's shame aggregator
Most Unwanted Scrobbles - Last.fm aggregates the tracks and artists that people don’t want the internet-at-large to know they listen to. Britney Spears appears twice in the top five songs, along with Nelly Furtado, Amy Winehouse and Avril Lavigne. The Beatles, Radiohead, Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne are the top 5 arists (along with Unknown.)
So I guess Last.fm users are just too damn cool to admit to some of their tastes. Me, I’m fine with letting you know I listened to Sir Mix-A-Lot’s Mack Daddy in its entirety this week.
Interview with David Flanagan, part 2
The second part of my interview with David Flanagan is online. This time around we talk about the craft of programming in general. Its good stuff.
Catch up with 30 Rock
OK, here’s the deal. If you’re not watching 30 Rock, you’re not watching the best show on TV. There I said it. Fortunately, you’ve got time to catch up; the show doesn’t come back until October 30th. To whet your appetite, I give you clips summarizing the “lives” of the two main characters, played by Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey.