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UTF-8: The Secret of Character Encoding
A good primer on the soon-to-be-most-popular character encoding on the web. Unicode is a pretty noodly subject, and this guide covers it well without being too jargony.
Context Free Art
Context Free is a program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar. The program follows the instructions in a few seconds to create images that can contain millions of shapes.
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Surfin' Safari - Blog Archive " Announcing SquirrelFish
Webkit's new Javascript interpreter is based on techniques used in Lua. Notibly, it lazily converts from syntax tree to bytecode as it runs.
Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters
"When I first read WhyFP, I thought the author was expressing an opinion about the design of good programming languages. Whereas on the second reading, I realized he was expressing an opinion about the design of good programs."
Gentium — a typeface for the nations
"Gentium is a typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications.for transliterated Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and other scripts." Typeface Gentium is a "frien
Actors That Unify Threads and Events (by Philipp Haller and Martin Odersky) (pdf)
This paper improves on our previous work in several respects: ... the decision whether an actor should be thread-less or not is deferred until run-time; our previous work did not address aspects of composition.
Seeking the Joy in Java
Last week Gilad Bracha, Neal Gafter, James Gosling, and Peter von der Ahé floated a proposal on the internet for adding Closures in Java [PDF]. I was excited to see that adding closures to Java was being considered by such influential people<sep/>
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