Jochen Hayek's Blog

Israeli movie: Off White Lies = Orhim LeRega (2011)

2012-02-13T17:49:00.000+01:00

Orhim le-rega (2011)

I attended the presentation at the Berlin Film Festival yesterday (2012-02-12).
I was quite sorry for the crew on stage after the movie itself for the Q+A section. The moderator should have blocked stupid question resp. answered them herself. She should have spent a lot more time involving (almost) everybody on stage for a question or two. I was quite embarrassed for her.

movie: Electrick Children (2012)

2012-02-12T01:10:00.002+01:00

Electrick Children (2012)

My 1st movie at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival.

movie: Kid-Thing (2012)

2012-02-12T01:10:00.000+01:00

Kid-Thing (2012)

My 2nd movie at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival.

How Massage Heals Sore Muscles - NYTimes.com

2012-02-11T19:59:00.000+01:00

How Massage Heals Sore Muscles - NYTimes.com

Getting a massage sounds good to me.

I don't have those 50 bucks to spend for the massage.

DataDrivenJournalism.net : Data Driven Journalism – where journalism meets data

2012-02-07T18:26:00.000+01:00

Data Driven Journalism

sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio : CamStudio – Record your desktop to AVI and SWF formats for handy demo videos

2012-02-07T18:25:00.001+01:00

CamStudio - Desktop Screen Recorder | Free Security & Utilities software downloads at SourceForge.net

Perl Data Language – scientific computing with Perl

2012-02-07T18:25:00.000+01:00

Perl Data Language

The Pragmatic Bookshelf: The Cucumber Book – Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers

2012-02-07T18:24:00.000+01:00

The Cucumber Book:
Your customers want rock-solid, bug-free software that does exactly what they expect it to do. Yet they can't always articulate their ideas clearly enough for you to turn them into code. The Cucumber Book dives straight into the core of the problem: communication between people. Cucumber saves the day; it's a testing, communication, and requirements tool - all rolled into one.

book: Programming Google App Engine

2012-02-07T18:23:00.000+01:00

Programming Google App Engine:

Google App Engine does more than provide access to a large system of servers. It also offers you a simple model for building applications that scale automatically to accommodate millions of users. With this updated edition of Programming Google App Engine, you'll get expert practical guidance that will help you make the best use of this powerful platform. Google engineer Dan Sanderson shows you how to design your applications for scalability, including ways to perform common development tasks using App Engine's APIs and scalable services.

The Pragmatic Bookshelf: Lean from the Trenches – Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban

2012-02-06T14:48:00.001+01:00

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

book: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2012-02-06T13:54:00.000+01:00

Learning Perl Student Workbook:
This is an ebook-only question and answer workbook to accompany the 6th Edition of Learning Perl ("the Llama"). If you're just getting started with Perl, this is the book you want—whether you're a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. This 6th edition of Learning Perl covers recent changes to the language up to version 5.14. Exercises are presented in the first half of the workbook, with the answers in the second. Topics include: Scalar Data Lists and Arrays Subroutines Input and Output Hashes In the World of Regular Expressions Matching with Regular Expressions Processing Text with Regular Expressions 10. More Control Structures Perl Modules File Tests Directory Operations Strings and Sorting Smart Matching Process Management Some Advanced Perl Techniques Databases …

book on Richard Stallman: Free as in Freedom

2012-02-06T13:52:00.000+01:00

Free as in Freedom [Paperback]:
Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement's overall success.

where is the fun with Firefox Aurora …

2012-02-03T15:10:00.002+01:00

…, if most of my plugins are getting disabled with the next upgrade?

Back to Firefox "beta update channel"! That should be exciting enough. Well, at least my plugins are functional there.

Q: what about Adium 1.5rc3 and its Skype plugin? A: the Skype plugin got blacklisted

2012-02-03T11:47:00.000+01:00

A couple of minutes ago, Adium popped up this message:

A new version of Adium is available.
Adium 1.5rc3 is now available––you have 1.4.4. Would you like to download it now?

Release Notes:
Version 1.5rc3 …
General

…

Blacklisted the Skype plugin in 1.5, as it's known to be broken.

…

No, I don't want to run Adium without its Skype plugin (any more).
At least they mention now, there is a problem with the Skype plugin, so I don't have to try.
I don't know, what I am missing, if I stay with 1.4.4, but it would be much harder for me to run Adium without Skype.

cartoon: I hate reading other people's code

2012-01-31T21:18:00.000+01:00

I hate reading other people's code

Hamas in deep trouble - Ynetnews

2012-01-31T18:58:00.000+01:00

Hamas in deep trouble - Ynetnews

Terence Siganakis: Why are column oriented databases so much faster than row oriented databases?

2012-01-30T11:56:00.000+01:00

Why are column oriented databases so much faster than row oriented databases? - Terence Siganakis

movie: About a Boy (2002) - IMDb

2012-01-29T15:31:00.000+01:00

About a Boy (2002) - IMDb

Watched a few minutes of this on TV. With Hugh Grant. Not bad.

movie: Fateless - German title: "Roman eines Schicksallosen" (2005)

2012-01-28T18:23:00.000+01:00

Sorstalanság (2005)

Rather good movie on a Holocaust fate. Saw it on TV last night.

e-book: Yahoo! Pipes - O'Reilly Media

2012-01-26T16:48:00.000+01:00

Yahoo! Pipes - O'Reilly Media

perl: XML::LibXML::XPathContext - registerNs

2012-01-24T16:22:00.002+01:00

XML::LibXML::XPathContext - XPath Evaluation - metacpan.org

If your XML has a namespace without prefix (xmlns="…" instead of xmlns:aaa="…", where 'aaa' would be called the prefix), you still have to provide registerNs with a proper prefix and use that prefix from then on; no undef or zero-length string allowed as prefix.

Learning this lesson cost me some sleep last night.

syndication feeds for blogs on Blogger.com take CGI parameters

2012-01-24T16:20:00.000+01:00

You can find the URL-s of the Atom and the RSS feeds for such a blog in its HTML:

/html/head/link[@rel="alternate" and @type="application/atom+xml"]/html/head/link[@rel="alternate" and @type="application/rss+xml"]

Within the XML of an Atom feed you can find a node like this:

/feed/link[@rel="next"]

/feed/link[@rel="next" and type="application/atom+xml"]

Found 1 nodes:

-- NODE --

The href attribute looks rather interesting, it uses these CGI parameters:

start-index
max-results

Actually the href used the somehow internal URL of that blog, but apparently both "public" URL and internal URL seem rather interchangeable – trial and failure "proved" that. Furthermore these CGI parameters also work on the URL of the RSS feed, not just the Atom feed.

BTW: Both feed XML-s carry an element openSearch:totalResults, find it like this:

/feed/openSearch:totalResult
/rss/channel/openSearch:totalResult

… for Atom resp. RSS.

It tells you exactly, what it says, i.e. the number of total results.

So you may very well read blog feed XML-s in small chunks, until you reach their end. I assume, this is what Google Reader does e.g. . It shows you the most recent blog articles (resp. their stubs) initially, and extends the list, when it notices, you are scrolling "beyond the end".

Yes, reading XML can be fun. Of course tidying helps (me) a lot, and emacs's nxml-mode in my case.

Of course, any pointers to relevant Blogger API documentation is kindly appreciated.

book: MySQL Troubleshooting

2012-01-24T14:15:00.000+01:00

MySQL Troubleshooting:
Sometimes applications can go mad: tables contain wrong data, users get random replies, server stop working, and so on. Several easy methods allow users to often find the problems quickly. This book, based on successful conference presentations by the author, cover SQL problems, memory and other server problems, replication, and problems related to particular storage engines.

music from the old days: Kool & The Gang: Joanna

2012-01-23T21:14:00.000+01:00

Open data, Google style - The H Open Source: News and Features

2012-01-23T21:12:00.000+01:00

Open data, Google style - The H Open Source: News and Features

book: Getting Started with Fluidinfo

2012-01-23T18:45:00.000+01:00

Getting Started with Fluidinfo:
For developers, content providers and sophisticated power users, Fluidinfo is an online information storage and search platform that supports shared openly writable metadata of any type and about anything. Fluidinfo helps content owners publish product information via a modern writable API, with flexible permissions and their domain name on their data. Developers can create lightweight applications that make data social while letting users personalize and search on anything.

the Firefox setting "browser.display.use_document_colors"

2012-01-23T18:43:00.001+01:00

Up until now, I have never heard of this setting, nevertheless it had gotten toggled a while ago. It had made me a little nervous during the last couple of weeks.

How I solved the issue:

searched the web for "Firefox ignores stylesheets",
too many hits of course …,
found a hint pointing to PrefBar,
installed the Firefox Add-on by the name of PrefBar,
toggled the Colors check box on that tool bar,
which surprisingly did, what I had not expected.

But that did not reveil me, which Firefox setting was involved.

So I launched about:config,
filtered by "color",
toggled the Colors check box another couple of times on PrefBar,
until I finally got aware of browser.display.use_document_colors changing its value simultaneously.

I have no idea, how this setting had gotten toggled a couple of weeks ago. Now everything is fine again.

What a wicked little thing!!

I am really relieved, this got finally solved.

Wikipedia launches official Android app - The H Open Source: News and Features

2012-01-20T19:13:00.001+01:00

Wikipedia launches official Android app - The H Open Source: News and Features

HtmlUnit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2012-01-20T18:25:00.000+01:00

HtmlUnit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Google+ Scraper – retrieve data from Google+ profiles with NodeJS and CoffeeScript

2012-01-20T18:24:00.003+01:00

fhemberger/googleplus-scraper - GitHub

A lot of Javascript, CoffeeScript, NodeJS, etc.

how can Google Reader go further back in time on a Feedburner feed than the XML shows me?

2012-01-20T18:22:00.002+01:00

If you use Google Reader for reading a feed on Google Feedburner, you can go back and back and back and … in time, but if you simply download the feed (as XML), the file is pretty finite and short.

Q: How do they do that?
Q: How do I get such a longer feed XML file myself? (I am more interested in this.)

have a lot of fun with Uncyclopedia's "Random article"

2012-01-20T15:33:00.000+01:00

Uncyclopedia

Google Chrome extension "Table Capture"

2012-01-20T14:36:00.000+01:00

Chrome Web Store - Table Capture

Using this tool you can browse all HTML tables on a web page (even nested ones) with big fun.

George Mike's HTML table capture test suite

2012-01-20T14:32:00.000+01:00

Table Capture Test

George Mike is the author of the Google Chrome extension Table Capture, which I find very, very useful.

Firefox Add-on "Dafizilla Table2Clipboard"

2012-01-20T14:17:00.000+01:00

Dafizilla Table2Clipboard :: Add-ons for Firefox sources on Sourceforge.net

If you want to paste data in Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc with correct disposition simply use Table2Clipboard.

"A brief survey of web data extraction tools" (ACM SIGMOD Record, Volume 31 Issue 2, June 2002)

2012-01-20T13:48:00.001+01:00

A brief survey of web data extraction tools (citation at the ACM digital library)
the article as PDF at Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto's home page at his university

Perl Cookbook, ch. 22.6: XML::LibXML and XPath for "Finding Elements and Text Within an XML Document"

2012-01-19T21:42:00.000+01:00

Perl Cookbook, 2nd Edition - O'Reilly Media

Not a really lengthy recipe, but still.

"Deploying Rails: Automate, Deploy, Scale, Maintain, and Sleep at Night" now in beta at Pragmatic Bookshelf

2012-01-19T21:41:00.000+01:00

Deploying Rails: Automate, Deploy, Scale, Maintain, and Sleep at Night now in beta

Galaxy S II: The Missing Manual - O'Reilly Media

2012-01-19T20:39:00.000+01:00

Galaxy S II: The Missing Manual - O'Reilly Media

Gábor Szabó: How to read a CSV file using Perl?

2012-01-19T13:03:00.000+01:00

How to read a CSV file using Perl?

OpenStreetMap claims map vandalism traced to Google IP range - Update

2012-01-18T16:40:00.000+01:00

OpenStreetMap claims map vandalism traced to Google IP range - Update: Bogus changes to the OpenStreetMap maps in London and New York have, according to members of the OpenStreetMap board, been traced to a Google IP range and they want an explanation from Google

CSV Kit -- commandline tools for working with CSV files

2012-01-18T15:18:00.000+01:00

Nat Torkington's Four short links: 17 January 2012:

CSV Kit -- commandline tools for working with CSV files. (via Hadley Wickham) […]

csvkit (CSV kit) is a suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV

2012-01-18T15:15:00.000+01:00

csvkit 0.4.2 (beta) documentation

XML.com: XML::LibXML - An XML::Parser Alternative

2012-01-17T02:46:00.000+01:00

XML.com: XML::LibXML - An XML::Parser Alternative

article: "Stepping up from XML::Simple to XML::LibXML"

2012-01-17T02:20:00.002+01:00

Stepping up from XML::Simple to XML::LibXML

I applied this (and a little more) in order to migrate my table_pdf2csv.pl , and of course I like it much better now. From there I will easily create more nice utilities.

pstree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2012-01-16T20:59:00.000+01:00

pstree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The article tells you, where to get the sources from.

The README tells you, how to compile it.

Easy!!!

Looks like pstree got abandoned on fink, but recompiling it yourself is honestly easy.

Perl-XML FAQ promote XML::LibXML

2012-01-16T19:54:00.000+01:00

Perl-XML Frequently Asked Questions

Perl-XML FAQ on XML::XPathScript

2012-01-16T19:51:00.000+01:00

Perl-XML Frequently Asked Questions

XPathScript is a stylesheet language similar in many ways to XSLT (in concept, not in appearance), for transforming XML from one format to another …

Perl-XML.sourceforge.net FAQ

2012-01-16T19:45:00.000+01:00

Perl-XML Frequently Asked Questions

XML::LibXML::Simple - a partial clone of XML::Simple - metacpan.org

2012-01-16T16:25:00.002+01:00

XML::LibXML::Simple - XML::LibXML clone of XML::Simple::XMLin() - metacpan.org

Maybe a useful alternative, once I run into problems with XML::Simple.

testing the NetworkedBlogs blog-2-facebook gateway

2012-01-16T15:07:00.000+01:00

I wonder, whether this will work.

NetworkedBlogs.com is the Facebook app, that does the "blog to Facebook" transfer.

The idea is, to finally reduce the number of articles on this blog shown on "my Facebook" by labeling an article with a certain label, and NetworkedBlogs.com would only see the articles from an RSS "sub-feed".

The NetworkedBlogs Facebook app takes

a "Blog Link"
and also a "Feed Link".

The Blog Link itself can be restricted on a particular label (like "show-on-Facebook"), the Feed Link can not, as described below.

On the RSS XML

each blog article corresponds to an entry element,
each entry element has a couple of category sub-elements, corresponding to the article's labels,
the label being the value of the term attribute of a category element.

There are no such sub-feeds on Blogger.com (itself).

It shouldn't be that difficult to create a filter to provide such sub-feeds, but right now my duties do not allow me to work on this. I am sorry.
That filter would just pass through all 1st level sub-elements (actually sub-trees), just restricting the entry sub-elements on those, that have a category sub-element with term="show-on-Facebook" (e.g.).

aquamacs.org : Emacs for Mac OS X

2012-01-15T18:23:00.000+01:00

Aquamacs: Emacs for Mac OS X

there is a port of GNU Emacs 24

EmacsForMacOSX.com : GNU Emacs For Mac OS X

2012-01-15T18:20:00.000+01:00

GNU Emacs For Mac OS X

They are also porting GNU Emacs 24, and I kind of like the idea of staying in sync with their nightly builds of that one ("Nightlies"). They have an RSS feed for that.

EmacsWiki: Emacs For Mac OS

2012-01-15T18:17:00.000+01:00

EmacsWiki: Emacs For Mac OS

Perl's Dancer is a port of Ruby's Sinatra

2012-01-15T17:22:00.001+01:00

Joel Berger's blog

Interesting!

on 2012-01-03 Google changed the XML for their address books, and that breaks jruby

2012-01-15T16:25:00.000+01:00

At first I thought, it breaks XmlSimple or REXML, but everything is fine with MRI ruby, just jruby (up until 1.6.5.1) is concerned.

Before then Google Contacts had their German "umlauts" (ä, ö, ü, Ä, Ö, Ü) and the German "sz" i.e. "ß" represented as "ä" (for ä) etc.

In the middle of that day they changed that, and started showing the characters themselves (in UTF-8).

movie: Chinese Take-Away (2011) - IMDb

2012-01-15T15:26:00.001+01:00

Chinese Take-Away (2011) - IMDb

Quite a nice comedy.

Mac OS X: how to avoid the screen saver whilst I watch a DVD?

2012-01-15T14:28:00.000+01:00

OpenStreetMap Nominatim – a tool for reverse geocoding

2012-01-14T23:57:00.000+01:00

Nominatim - OpenStreetMap Wiki

Debian passes CentOS as most popular Linux for web servers

2012-01-14T23:56:00.002+01:00

Debian passes CentOS as most popular Linux for web servers: During the last year, Debian GNU/Linux and CentOS were the most popular Linux distributions on web servers […]

The rise of programmable self. Quantifying your changes + motivational hacks = programmable self. by Fred Trotter

2012-01-14T23:56:00.001+01:00

The rise of programmable self:
Programmable self is a riff on the Quantified Self (QS). It is a simple concept:
Quantify what you want to change about yourself + motivational hacks = personal change success.
[...]

What is big data? An introduction to the big data landscape. by Edd Dumbill

2012-01-14T23:55:00.000+01:00

What is big data?:
Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems. The data is too big, moves too fast, or doesn't fit the strictures of your database architectures. To gain value from this data, you must choose an alternative way to process it.
[…]

Chromium 18.0.1002.0 showed a lot of form fields inverted

2012-01-12T22:46:00.001+01:00

That was quite a PITA.

Chromium 18.0.1006.0 seems to be fine again. I am very glad.

vistaprint invoices vs currency characters: it's safer to print those invoices from their web-site

2012-01-12T16:31:00.000+01:00

Flat text invoices – they are really not my favourite, because I anticipate problems with the taxman.

The flat text invoices, they send me via e-mail, are even worse: my software says, they are in UTF-8, and that's my select encoding, but still the EUR character gets displayed as "?". I doubt, my taxman would love to see this. And if the taxman is unhappy, I am unhappy as well.

But at least they offer their flat text invoices with a proper EUR character on their web-site. Relief.

To understand the Good Samaritan, you must know a Samaritan was the last person to whom Jews would look for help

2012-01-12T15:41:00.000+01:00

The Bad Samaritan - Biblical Archeology Society - Jewish Ideas Daily

You can't understand the story of the Good Samaritan without knowing that a Samaritan was the last kind of person to whom a Jew would look for help. Amy-Jill Levine, Biblical Archeology Society.

Google Chrome extension "Scraper"

2012-01-12T00:14:00.002+01:00

Chrome Web Store - Scraper

A really nice and useful utility.

Looks like it currently deals deal perfectly with spanning columns, but then … something must remain for the human factor.

Virtual Sweatshops Defeat CAPTCHAs

2012-01-12T00:12:00.002+01:00

From Four short links: 11 January 2011 by Nat Torkington.

Virtual Sweatshops Defeat CAPTCHAs

I knew there was an industry around solving CAPTCHAs (to spam comments on blogs, sign up for millions of gmail accounts, etc.) but this is the first time I've seen how much you can be paid for it: employees can expect to earn between $0.35 to $1 for every thousand CAPTCHAs they solve [...] Most of our staff is from China, India, Pakistan and Vietnam. (via BoingBoing)

google-refine - Google Refine, a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) - Google Project Hosting

2012-01-11T16:30:00.000+01:00

google-refine - Google Refine, a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) - Google Project Hosting

Watch at least the 1st video there! If you are interested in data, you may love it.

HealthCheck: Linux Mint

2012-01-11T11:30:00.000+01:00

HealthCheck: Linux Mint: The success of Linux Mint is down to its usability - easy to set up and get running and then use. The latest development is a new user interface, Cinnamon. Richard Hillesley looks at the history of Mint and considers whether Cinnamon marks a turning point for the distribution …

"Firefox for Enterprises" – Delivering a Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release ("ESR") | The Mozilla Blog

2012-01-11T11:18:00.000+01:00

Delivering a Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release | The Mozilla Blog

FSFE opens 2012 Document Freedom Award nominations

2012-01-11T11:08:00.000+01:00

FSFE opens 2012 Document Freedom Award nominations: The Free Software Foundation Europe is seeking nominations for its fourth annual Document Freedom Award, which will be presented on this year's Document Freedom Day …

I would have loved to suggest AVM for supporting Ogg Vorbis in their FRITZ!WLAN (WiFi) Repeater series and their FRITZ!Fon series for receiving broadcasters' live streams, but they only support MP3.

book: The Linux Command Line

2012-01-10T15:57:00.000+01:00

The Linux Command Line:
The Linux Command Line takes you from your very first terminal keystrokes to writing full programs in Bash, the most popular Linux shell. Along the way you'll learn the timeless skills handed down by generations of gray-bearded, mouse-shunning gurus: file navigation, environment configuration, command chaining, pattern matching with regular expressions, and more.

mbox -- more technical information than you ever thought you'd need, to be saved for the time when you have to parse mailbox files

2012-01-10T15:42:00.000+01:00

FGA: "mbox" is a family of several mutually incompatible mailbox formats.

book: The Developer's Code

2012-01-10T15:08:00.000+01:00

The Developer's Code:
You're already a great coder, but awesome coding chops aren't always enough to get you through your toughest projects. You need these 50+ nuggets of wisdom. Veteran programmers: reinvigorate your passion for developing web applications. New programmers: here's the guidance you need to get started. With this book, you'll think about your job in new and enlightened ways.

book: Meaningful Use and Beyond

2012-01-09T19:14:00.000+01:00

Meaningful Use and Beyond:
Ready to take your IT skills to the healthcare industry? This concise book provides a candid assessment of the US healthcare system as it ramps up its use of electronic health records (EHRs) and other forms of IT to comply with the government’s Meaningful Use requirements. It’s a tremendous opportunity for tens of thousands of IT professionals.

o'Reilly OFPS ("Open Feedback Publishing System"): several nice free online books

2012-01-09T16:36:00.000+01:00

Open Feedback Publishing System

book: The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption

2012-01-09T16:11:00.000+01:00

The Information Diet:
According to Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt, we create more information every two days than we did throughout human history up to 2003. How can you cope with information overload? This insightful book makes a compelling case that information overload doesn't actually exist—the real problem is information overconsumption. By showing you what to look for, what to avoid, and how to be selective, The Information Diet provides a framework for consuming information in a healthy way.

FormulatePro helps you open and write on PDF documents

2012-01-09T16:04:00.000+01:00

formulatepro - Overlay text and graphics on PDF documents. Great for filling out forms. - Google Project Hosting

PDFTron: PDF components and PDF tools

2012-01-09T15:57:00.000+01:00

PDFTron: PDF components and PDF tools

book: Breaking the Page

2012-01-09T15:46:00.000+01:00

Breaking the Page: Preview Edition:
A fresh, elemental look at how screen-based publications work, the kinds of material they can and should contain, and how to assemble all this new stuff in a package that's entertaining and compelling.

book: PDF Explained

2012-01-09T15:45:00.000+01:00

PDF Explained:
An introduction to the PDF file format, threaded through with practical examples – deconstructing, creating and processing PDF files. After exploring how PDF is produced, and how it can be edited with tools from text editors to Ghostscript to PDFTK, readers will learn to deal with problems with PDF files and common error messages.

Google Fusion Tables - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2012-01-09T14:51:00.000+01:00

Google Fusion Tables - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

installing pdftohtml from sources – successfully using 0.40a

2012-01-09T14:15:00.000+01:00

pdftohtml-0.40a.tar.gz (an experimental version from 2006-11-06 on SourceForge.net)
as opposed to 0.39 I got this recompiled out of the box on Linux and Mac OS X Lion

True, this is not brand-new information, but I think still worth mentioning.

Carbon Emacs Package

2012-01-08T17:05:00.000+01:00

Carbon Emacs Package

I love this emacs of OS X.

book: Data Analysis with Open Source Tools: A hands-on guide for programmers and data scientists

2012-01-08T16:49:00.000+01:00

Data Analysis with Open Source Tools - O'Reilly Media

book: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great

2012-01-08T16:47:00.000+01:00

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Agile Retrospectives

book: Practices of an Agile Developer

2012-01-08T16:45:00.000+01:00

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Practices of an Agile Developer

book: Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems using Java, Python, and More

2012-01-08T16:43:00.000+01:00

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Data Crunching

book: Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects

2012-01-08T16:42:00.000+01:00

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Manage Your Project Portfolio

book: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

2012-01-08T16:40:00.000+01:00

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

book: SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming

2012-01-08T16:36:00.000+01:00

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | SQL Antipatterns

book: The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development

2012-01-08T16:34:00.000+01:00

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | The Passionate Programmer

The feedback economy - O'Reilly Radar

2012-01-08T16:15:00.000+01:00

The feedback economy - O'Reilly Radar

Eric S. Raymond: Understanding Version-Control Systems

2012-01-08T16:05:00.000+01:00

Understanding Version-Control Systems

Plastic SCM blog: The version control timeline

2012-01-08T15:52:00.000+01:00

Plastic SCM blog: The version control timeline

The comments there are interesting on their own!!!

Atria Software's ClearCase vs. Apollo Computer's DSEE – that makes sense …

2012-01-08T15:44:00.000+01:00

IBM Rational ClearCase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eric S. Raymond even writes: "DSEE was rebranded as ClearCase."
Wow! Why didn't I read this in the early days of ClearCase. I don't remember any mentioning like this in the articles I read then.

The History of Version Control (Francis Irving)

2012-01-08T15:10:00.000+01:00

Astonishments, ten, in the history of version control < Francis is

Concise history of the key advances in managing source code versions. Worth it just for the delicious apposition of "history" and "version control".

book: APIs: A Strategy Guide – Creating Channels with Application Programming Interfaces - O'Reilly Media

2012-01-08T15:05:00.000+01:00

APIs: A Strategy Guide - O'Reilly Media

"Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices" | Electronic Frontier Foundation

2012-01-08T14:59:00.000+01:00

Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices | Electronic Frontier Foundation

a must read guide for travelers with commercial, political, or personal confidences they would like to keep

book: Head First Mobile Web

2012-01-08T14:55:00.001+01:00

Head First Mobile Web:

Mobile web usage is exploding. Soon, more web browsing will take place on phones and tablets than PCs. Your business needs a mobile strategy, but where do you start? Head First Mobile Web shows how to use the web tech- nology you’re already familiar with to make sites and apps that work on any device of any size. Put your JavaScript, CSS media query, and HTML5 skills to work, and then optimize your site to perform its best in the demanding mobile market. Along the way, you’ll discover how to adapt your business strategy to target specific devices.