Seeing the name of this ruby gem popping up all over. Wrap HTTParty in a class for an incredibly short, quick-start web service API library (and the examples included look they cover all my current requirements. Sold!)
Great-looking illustrated text adventure which “starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not a great idea”. Not tried it properly yet. Saving for later.
For the past few weeks I’ve been digging back into the strange and wonderful world of roleplaying games where I spent so much of my youth. I’ve been back for visits now and then over the years, seeking out books and boxed sets at my mum’s house or browsing the cover scans on labour-of-love sites like The Museum of Roleplaying Games. But never stopping for much more than an hour or two.
I remember flipping through those small volumes and marveling at them. Crude and amateurish though they were in some ways, there was something primal about them, something that spoke to me on some unconscious level that I couldn’t then explain.
“Declarative RealTime Programming Now!”. Deliciously geeky & awkward OU-style promo film for the wacky Swedish language everyone loves to name-drop.
I’ve recently been writing client side Java Script for an HTML user interface I’ve been building at work, and I ran into an issue with Internet Explorer which I was at least partially responsible for 10 years ago!
Just lots of pics and details of some guy’s over the top home office setup. More monitors, books, desks and ergonomic input devices than you can shake a stick at.
[Reading @messages on Twitter] is like that frustrating experience when your spouse is on the phone with someone interesting, you want to keep saying, “What’d he say?” so that you can be part of it.
Video of the co-author of Mosaic and founder of Netscape discussing practically everything on PBS talk show.
Video lectures and slides from a course based around Steve Skiena’s book The Algorithm Design Manual. Which has been languishing on my Amazon wish list for a while now following a hearty recommendation from Steve Yegge.