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"Python reads how Tarzan talks"

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:50:12 -0500

“Python reads how Tarzan talks”

- Bruce Williams

"The system should always respond in a manner which causes the “least astonishment” to..."

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:09:00 -0400

“The system should always respond in a manner which causes the “least astonishment” to the user - i.e. a user should be able to predict what will happen when they do something and not be astonished by the result.”

- 3.9 Use the principle of “least astonishment” - Erlang Programming Rules

Screenflick: screen capturing for OS X

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:00:13 -0400

Screenflick: screen capturing for OS X:

Screenflick features high performance screen capturing for smooth, fluid motion up to 60 fps. Screenflick can record any portion of the screen, simultaneously recording audio from internal or external microphones and the system audio.

FancyZoom Meets Prototype

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:33:48 -0400

FancyZoom Meets Prototype

History of the browser user-agent string

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:06:28 -0400

History of the browser user-agent string:

In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing.

"I honestly don’t give a rat’s ass about architectural purity unless it achieves a pure..."

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:24:58 -0400

“I honestly don’t give a rat’s ass about architectural purity unless it achieves a pure purpose. The purpose of REST is to explain why you want to build it in a certain way given the Web’s own context. If that context doesn’t exactly match a new application’s context, then the goal of my dissertation is to teach people how to think about the problem in terms of trade-offs, not in terms of rigid repetition of what works for the Web.”

- Roy T. Fielding on [rest-discuss]