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"The V8 engine is a bit exotic because it generates assembly code at run-time."

"This blog is about mechanically optimizing CL code. We will not discuss optimizing algorithms; instead we'll transform the code in rote ways to improve performance. To illustrate these techniques, we'll re-implement Perl's core Text::Soundex function"

"Here is the main issue Maven is designed to handle one language only for its compilation - primarily Java. This is rapidly starting<sep/>

"In June, 2007 - Red Hat launched the IcedTea project with the goal of making OpenJDK usable without requiring any other software that is not free. [...] The latest OpenJDK binary included in Fedora 9 (x86 and x86_64) passes the rigorous [TCK]."

"So here's to open learning, to free software, to strength of personal conviction, and to having enough damn humility to remember that the goal is bringing learning to a billion children across the globe. / Let's get to it already."

"So, let's try this: An open source company is one that, as its core revenue-generating business, actively produces, distributes, and sells (or sells services around) software under an OSI-approved license."

Installing alternate OSes on the XO laptop: on the built-in SSD, a USB stick, or SD card.

I have been playing around with getting a JSON representation of a Notes Document (its data, not the Java class) and I am not sure how to<sep/>

Excellent. A blog post on static and dynamic typing that actually sheds new light on the subject. Thanks Ricky!

Discusses pessimistic vs. optimistic locking of shared caches; in pure functional languages, like Haskell, collections never change -- modifications result in new collections. References the book, "Concurrency<sep/>

"(...) 10. Growing consensus - A growing number of key XML languages are being normatively defined using RELAX NG, such as XHTML 2.0, the Atom Syndication<sep/>

References Guy Steele's OOPSLA 98 "Growing a Language" talk (although the link is broken).