In Web 2.0? Try 3.0, Dan Gillmor asks:
If the web is becoming an operating system in its own right, can anyone monopolise it the way Microsoft did on personal computers? As long as the webâs basic functions remain ...
After my success with the BNF generator yesterday, I just had to redo my Turtle parser based on the BNF in the Turtle spec. Thanks to the clarity of the grammar I rewrote the parser in less than an hour. Though "rewrote" is exaggerating - I cut and pasted the ...
One of the best ways of testing a new translator/compiler/interpreter is to feed it complex input. So I set about creating an XML parser.
It took me less than 4 hours to get a more-or-less working SAX parser for the complete XML grammar, and more than half of that was troubleshooting ...
As part of my parser assembler work, I've gotten my BNF to parser assembler translator to translate it's own BNF to parser assembler equivalent to it's own parser... In other words, it's successfully bootstrapped.
There are still some holes to plug, and the code is a real mess, but this ...
BBC Online: 'Infomania' worse than marijuana
Workers distracted by email and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers, new research has claimed.
I assume they're referring to a temporary "loss" while ...
Via Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check:
ACM Queue - UML Fever: Diagnosis and Recovery: Sidebars from Scott Ambler and Craig Larman
I particularly loved this quote:
'Starting in the late ...
Great article in eWeek on the anti patent views of two of the MySQL co-founders (and some notes on MySQL 5.0): MySQL Founders: Kill All the Patents
'[Patents] just stall innovation. Look at an extension of patents. I don't see any difference in ...
In the last couple of months, I've added at least a hundred feeds to my aggregator. At the same time I've suffered from information overload in my e-mail for years, to the point where I now mostly just scan the subjects of my main mailbox and direct anybody I actually want ...
I'm starting to feel like I have to grow up soon now... ;)
Happy birthday!
Hey Vidar,
Happy birthday - you are now officially old too :)
--geir