Although I run the risk of fawning all over this book here, Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan’s Regular Expressions Cookbook (Second Edition) (O’Reilly, 2012) is a technical text that I will gladly describe using words like “essential” and “indispensable” and “invaluable”. It should be on every working programmer’s bookshelf, if not on her desk. It […]
The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia Who else? Matt Taibbi, at Rolling Stone: That doesn't sound like much. But when added to the other fractions of a percent stolen from basically every other town in America on every other bond issued by Wall Street in the past 10 to 15 years, it starts […]
Lessons From the Slush Pile: Your Cover Letter and You at Inkpunks — could have been sub-titled: "the less-is-more approach to writing cover letters" (tagged: writing publishing ) Against Chrome: A Manifesto at 3quarksdaily — An interesting and thoughtful essay making the rounds this past week. Worth at least a look, even if you don't […]
Maximus Clarke talks with William Gibson about his “speculative novels of last Wednesday” by Maud Newton (via B²) (tagged: williamgibson fiction scifi interview writing ) George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay at Binary Bonsai (via B²) (tagged: starwars Chewbacca creativity design film essay todo ) jQuery Regular Expressions Review (Rev:20100921_1700) via @rmurphey (tagged: regex […]
Regex Syntax Highlighter at Flagrant Badassery (tagged: regex todo ) OpenSocial at Google Code (tagged: ajax api code documentation opensocial webdev javascript google framework todo work ) Sass "Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets" (tagged: code css sass framework generator Ruby tools webdev work todo ) Fresh SF Futures by the always fabulous Rudy Rucker (via B²) (tagged: […]
The Hacker Crackdown via lawnczar — just in time for the 20th anniversary of the Steve Jackson Games raid; Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown in HTML (tagged: history hackers government censorship ) The Steve Jackson Games Raid was 20 years ago at Beyond The Beyond (via lawnczar) — 20th anniversary of the Steve Jackson Games […]
More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation short version: I would support this if we did not ONLY emphasize traditional academics; when we're talk about lengthening the school day, let's keep in perspective that kids need to be kids, too—more hours and more days is only part of the answer, we also need to make […]
5.5. Case study: Dumb Quotes via lepht (at [Dive Into Greasemonkey]) (tagged: webdev javascript regex todo ) Repeat after me: Unicode is not UTF-\d{1,2} via lepht (via reddit.com): short version: Unicode is a standard, and UTF-(8|16|32) are character encodings that support encoding Unicode data into byte strings. (tagged: Unicode text dev essay todo ) Modeling the […]