On The Farm, the Tucows programming-in-general blog:
– a command-line app that you can call from shell scripts / other
command-line apps to display standard dialog boxes. Good for giving
your interactive command-line apps a Mac-like UI with very little work
on your part.
a book on writing Perl frameworks that generate functions. I point to
both the book’s site and an interview with the author of Higher-Order Perl, Mark Jason Dominus.
SELECT * FROM MySQL_Reference_Material WHERE usefulness = 100;
! — one’s a weblog with some awesome JavaScript/DHTML code; the other is
a useful library for JavaScript/DHTML apps. There’s also some mention
of Ruby on Rails.
On IndieGameDev, the blog for independent game developers:
comes a time in every 3D game where the user needs to click on
something in the scene. Maybe he needs to select a unit in an RTS, or
open a door in an RPG, or delete some geometry in a level editing tool.
This conceptually simple task is easy to screw up since there are so
many little steps that can go wrong.”
In the Blogware blog:
A well known J-school’s magazine (produced by graduating journalism
students) takes a look at the intersection of blogging and journalism.
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A Swedish TV program labelled Vladimir Putin as “President USA.” My thoughts on this:
[ The original version of this article is incorrect, so I’m substituting its content with…
A reminder: kakistocracy means “a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent…
Le Figaro, a daily newspaper in France that’s been around since 1826, has published an…
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