posts brought to you by the category “quebec”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.
“Poutine is drama”
Jeni Tennison : Comparing Documents [in XSLT]
This page will hold information about how to compare several XML documents with each other using XSLT and give information about their differences.
http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/egg
Meanwhile, Nat Torkington has turned iTunes into Napster.
I'm not releasing the source, though, until I talk with Tim O'Reilly and Apple and figure out whether I'll be getting my arse sued off ...
Darren Chamberlain : DBD::google.pm
Me : sql-abstract-_recurse_where-order-by.diff
Me : Net::ITE.pm 0.01
Me : XML::Handler::NYTimes.pm 0.1
SVG-coders mailing list
"This list aims at providing a discussion place for the more advanced SVG uses dealing with interactivity, animation and server-side SVG applications."
Me : XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2RSS.pm 0.9.01
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : depredation
Depredation \Dep`re*da"tion\, n. [L. depraedatio: cf. F. d['e]pr['e]dation.] The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.
web1913
depredation n : an act of plundering [syn: {predation}, {preying}]
wn
LogiLab : VCalSax
"is a simple Python module for managing scheduler data in XML. VCalSax allows to load data from VCalendar files into DOM trees. And to rewrite such trees as VCalendar files."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : skankle
Any word that one writes in one's notes while falling asleep during a lecture.
ex. Ooh, look. I came up with new skankle in government today.
Simon's Journal : CPAN XML-RPC
"In fact, thinking about it, it would be pretty stupid if two machines in an organization had to download and install the same module, when they can share the code."
D.J. Adams : Is Jabber's Chatbot the Command Line of the Future?
Bob DuCharme : Controlling Whitespace [ in XSLT ], Part 1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is arcanum
| source : web1913 | Arcanum \Ar*ca"num\, n.; pl. {Arcana}. [L., fr. arcanus closed, secret, fr. arca chest, box, fr. arcere to inclose. See {Ark}.] 1. A secret; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural. Inquiries into the arcana of the Godhead. --Warburton. 2. (Med.) A secret remedy; an elixir. --Dunglison. | source : wn | arcanum n : information known only to a special group; "the secret of Cajun cooking" [syn: {secret}] | source : gazetteer | Arcanum, OH (village, FIPS 2330) Location: 39.99155 N, 84.55382 W Population (1990): 1953 (829 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Ave Wrigley : App::Control.pm
"is a simple module to replicate the kind of functionality you get with apachectl to control apache, but for any script or executable. There is a very simple OO interface, where the constructor is used to specify the executable, command line arguments, and pidfile, and various methods (start, stop, etc.) are used to control the executable in the obvious way."
ResearchBuzz 911 Coverage
Francois Pinard : pymacs
"allows for using Python as if it were part of Emacs LISP. I merely revisited a good idea from Cedric Adjih, who published `pyemacs' about three years ago, and spiced with a few simplification ideas on my own. It seems to work!"
Matt Sergeant : " So I created an AxKit provider module, which sent accesses to URLs to our COM object.
The XML returned simply got returned via AxKit, and potentially styled by a stylesheet. We could even apply a "SOAPify" stylesheet to it to return the body as a SOAP response. Nice. And it performs damn well too. At least 3 times faster than the SOAP::Lite server (though that may be an unfair test, but who cares about fairness :-)"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is permeate
| source : web1913 | Permeate \Per"me*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Permeated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Permeating}.] [L. permeatus, p. p. of permeare to permeate; per + meare to go, pass.] 1. To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand. --Woodward. 2. To enter and spread through; to pervade. God was conceived to be diffused throughout the whole world, to permeate and pervade all things. --Cudworth. | source : wn | permeate v 1: spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration" [syn: {pervade}, {diffuse}, {imbue}] 2: pass through; "Water permeated sand easily" [syn: {percolate}, {sink in}, {filter}] 3: penetrate mutually or be interlocked; "The territories of two married people interpenetrate a lot" [syn: {interpenetrate}]
Larry Wall : State of the Onion 2001
Dan Clowes : "The saying 'You can't judge a book by its cover' is one of the most untrue phrases ever uttered.
You can absolutely judge people by the way they choose to present themselves, and although you can't be completely accurate in your judgment, you can discern lots of information. And we all do, whether we're conscious of it or not. My tendency to deconstruct people with just one look is a defense mechanism, and although I don't really need one at this point in my life, it's not easy to shake the things you grew up with. ... I recently went through my work to put some things together for an art show, and I was struck by how frequently I've drawn the image of the back of a guy's head walking through a city. I've drawn it over and over again, and I can't think of another artist who's drawn that image. I guess I draw the back of the head because it's more anonymous, nonconfrontational and fearful."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is irenic
| source : web1913 | Irenic \I*ren"ic\, Irenical \I*ren"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?.] Fitted or designed to promote peace; pacific; conciliatory; peaceful. --Bp. Hall. | source : wn | irenic adj : conducive to peace; "irenic without being namby-pamby"; "an irenic attitude toward former antagonists"
Can someone tell me what a "created distributed conversation" is?
This morning, on the way back from the bagel store,
Ladies and gentlemen, the Anti-CRAP
developerWorks : Zope for the Perl/CGI programmers
Damian Conway : "The NEXT pseudoclass solves this problem,
because a call to $self->NEXT::AUTOLOAD(@args) means "continue with the original look-up search that caused the current method to be selected". By continuing the original look-up, rather than starting a new one that's restricted to the current package's ancestrals (as $self->SUPER::AUTOLOAD(@args) does), NEXT allows for the possibility of backtracking to classes on other branches of the inheritance tree if necessary."
NY Times : Auditing Classes at M.I.T., on the Web and Free
"Selling content for profit, or trying in some ways to commercialize one of the core intellectual activities of the university seemed less attractive to people at a deep level than finding ways to disseminate it as broadly as possible."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is ignoble
| source : web1913 | Ignoble \Ig*no"ble\, v. t. To make ignoble. [Obs.] --Bacon. | source : web1913 | Ignoble \Ig*no"ble\, a. [L. ignobilis; pref. in- not + nobilis noble: cf. F. ignoble. See {In-} not, and {Noble}, a.] 1. Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble. I was not ignoble of descent. --Shak. Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants. --Shak. 2. Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base. 'T but a base, ignoble mind, That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. --Shak. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. --Gray. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk. Syn: Degenerate; degraded; mean; base; dishonorable; reproachful; disgraceful; shameful; scandalous; infamous. | source : wn | ignoble adj 1: completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [ant: {noble}] 2: not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians" [syn: {ungentle}, {untitled}]
Sightings : Fuck no.
Henning Behme : Dynamic XML with AxKit
Clay Shirky : Lessons from Napster
CNET : Better DHTML Through Object Oriented Design
...most [ cross-platform DHTML libraries ] include the code for all different browsers in each script, creating bloated, complex code that must be updated whenever a new browser is released. We think we've found a better way to approach reusable components that addresses these issues. via
whump
You crazy fuckers.
Jonathon Eisenzopf : Weblog Unleashed
"The Weblog is a mutation of the Channel Manager. I wrote the Channel Manager a few months ago to make it easy for people to edit their RSS channels. The idea seemed to catch on, so I decided to update the code a bit to also output WML for WAP phones, HTML for Web browser, and simple HTML for Palm Pilots and PDAs. Several sites started using the Weblog, WebReference being one of them, to not only maintain their RSS channel, but also their home page. I've also toyed with voice synthesized output via Festival. I haven't gotten that far yet, but Kevin Lenzo and Alan Black are helping me along those lines. Weblog supports RSS 0.9, 0.91, and 1.0." via
ed
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Banco de Gaia
Ivan Kohler : Net::SSH.pm
Rbmake
"is a "book maker" for the Rocket eBook. It consists of a set of commandline tools that assemble or disassemble .rb files -- the book format that is native to the ReB"
Perlmonks : japhy's Obfuscation Review
"so that you understand what's going on, and get some ideas as to how to better obfuscate your programs."
Sightings :
The only thing worse than X?
If you're easily swayed but other people's opinion,
John Hardin : Enhancing E-Mail Security With Procmail
Beam-back
"is a simple Python script to save streaming mp3's so you can use them on your portable mp3 player."
Social and Economic Implications of Informfation Technologies
A Bibliographic Database Pilot Project
Julian Borger : It came from outer Toronto
""There was a stupid rumour going around the plant that we were building a flying saucer, and everybody was laughing about it. Then one day I was called in by security, and I was told I needed clearance because we were building a flying saucer."
Seattle Weekly : Pottery Barn Nation
"It's all about seeing the red. I see and am sold. I walk out of the store with a bag containing five red shop towels, feeling as though my education in good taste has just begun..."
Christie Blachford : This bird won't take flight from the city
"There are always miles of highways temporarily working as mere roads and crammed with sport-utility vehicles and four-wheel drives, strip malls full of chain stores, big-box outlet joints (many of which, mysteriously, have cafes attached, as if you actually might like to linger there in the middle of the bleak and soul-destroying nowhere), unimaginably huge churches and spanking new schools, no sidewalks and, the old chicken-and-egg conundrum here, nothing worth walking to anyway."
Spider Robinson : Stop Listening to the Future People
"The technoweenies honestly believe what you want, and will pay a fortune to acquire, is a home in which every single thing you own behaves as reliably as your Web browser does."
Avril Benoit gets evolved off of This Morning
The Words & Pictures Museum
