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:: Friday, July 07, 2000 ::

webreview.com - Taming the XML Beast
:: linuxian 7/7/2000 05:45:26 PM [+] ::

This Swiki page has some cool Screenshots of Squeak!
:: linuxian 7/7/2000 05:15:34 PM [+] ::

David Gelernter waxes philosophical, again: The Second Coming -- a Manifesto.
:: linuxian 7/7/2000 05:00:05 PM [+] ::

The main index to Xerox PARC publications.
:: linuxian 7/7/2000 11:58:35 AM [+] ::

Xerox PARC parc historical publications - the "blue and white series," etc. The archive contains many viewable, downloadable, & printable papers.
:: linuxian 7/7/2000 11:50:42 AM [+] ::

A Swiki page on the Squeak port of Kent Beck's SUnits Testing Framework.
:: linuxian 7/7/2000 10:27:41 AM [+] ::

Lex Spoon is doing a Bottom-up Squeak Port of the Refactoring Browser.
:: linuxian 7/7/2000 10:25:10 AM [+] ::

PDFTOHTML - an open-source PDF-to-HTML converter
:: linuxian 7/7/2000 09:36:26 AM [+] ::

Some references on 3Dsia:

• 3Dsia Virtual Reality Shell
• 3Dsia project at SourcefForge
• 3Dsia Prototype 0.0.1 at Freshmeat.net
• Project info for 3Dsia at Advogato.org
• Time City
• The Walled City Project
• The Walled City Project Page at SourceForge
• Xandi personal info on one of the main 3Dsia developers.
• An Interview with Xandi on Linux.com

:: linuxian 7/7/2000 09:28:14 AM [+] ::

WGET for Windows
:: linuxian 7/6/2000 11:09:19 AM [+] ::

The project page and home page for the ANSI-ST-tests Project at SourceForge.
:: linuxian 7/6/2000 10:42:51 AM [+] ::

The XML Cover Pages presents itself as "a comprehensive online reference work for the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its parent, the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)." It is sponsored by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).
:: linuxian 7/6/2000 10:08:34 AM [+] ::

Good XML resource: xmlhack: developer news from the XML community.
:: linuxian 7/6/2000 09:58:21 AM [+] ::

XML Zone is an XML starter & reference link site associated with Dev-X.
:: linuxian 7/6/2000 09:52:24 AM [+] ::

The new Pythonlabs site!
:: linuxian 7/5/2000 05:04:23 PM [+] ::

Some resources on Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and his classic book, On Growth and Form:

• Thompson, Sir D'Arcy Wentworth:
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica entry.
  • D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1860--1948
  • D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  • D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
• On Growth and Form:
  • On Growth and Form at Amazon.com.
  • Guess what was in The mobile “shelf” (footlocker) of B. Fuller as of September, 1949)!
  • Table of Contents for On Growth and Form
  • A Library Card for On Growth and Form
• Related references:
  • The Parsimonious Universe : Shape and Form in the Natural World at Amazon.com.
  • The Self-Made Tapestry : Pattern Formation in Nature -- Chapter 1.
  • The Self-Made Tapestry : Pattern Formation in Nature at Amazon.com.
  • The Curves of Life : Being an Account of Spiral Formations and Their Application to Growth in Nature, to Science, and to Art : With Special Reference at Amazon.com.
  • The Geometry of Art and Life at Amazon.com.
  • The Geometrical Foundation of Natural Structure : A Source Book of Design at Amazon.com
  • Visual Models of Morphogenesis: Introduction
  • From The Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook, it appears that Alan Turing explored some similar concepts and may well have been aware of Thompson's work.
  • On Growth & Form: Learning Probability Concepts By ``Doing Science''
  • The Self-Made Tapestry : Pattern Formation in Nature at Amazon.com.

:: linuxian 7/5/2000 03:11:13 PM [+] ::

Another Kegel resource: Using TrueType Fonts with Red Hat Linux.
:: linuxian 7/5/2000 02:30:32 PM [+] ::

Dan Kegel's Web Hostel has lots of nitty-gritty Linux resources, including The C10K problem, which includes lots of information worth knowing when trying to deal with Jabber's current limitations. There is a link to an article, Accept() scalability on Linux, that discusses the "thundering herd" problem.
:: linuxian 7/5/2000 02:29:38 PM [+] ::

Yea! Now we have The Jabber Programmers Guide!
:: linuxian 7/5/2000 10:01:06 AM [+] ::

XML.com - Getting Started with XML Programming and Getting Started with XML Programming, Part II use Perl to introduce XML-based programming. The appendices point to some useful Perl modules for XML processing.
:: linuxian 7/5/2000 09:40:05 AM [+] ::