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Love it and hate it, R has come of age – Brendan O'Connor's Blog
(tags: r statistics programming)

Must Read: Recent OAuth vulnerability http://is.gd/uxfn Tech Details http://is.gd/u33p Session fixation http://is.gd/uBYb #
Interesting! Love it and hate it, R has come of age (Jan 2009) http://anyall.org/blog/2009/01/love-it-and-hate-it-r-has-come-of-age/ #

Scala Talk at FOSDEM 2009
(tags: scala presentation talk)

Download the Basic and Wicket Scala talk materials | StuQ.nl
(tags: scala wicket java)

Coderspiel / The escape hatch
(tags: scala java tutorial hibernate wicket web programming)

@dushyanth @sduskis but how does one batch the tweets at the end of the day ? (n then start with a clean batch thereafter) in reply to dushyanth #
@sduskis Googling seems to suggest the following might be helpful http://tinyurl.com/cfehts and http://tinyurl.com/de8vzv in reply to sduskis #

Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/Scala to join #
Started a Twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/python to join. #
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How Scala’s pattern matching can replace Visitors http://tinyurl.com/cdtpvl #
About the newer languages on the JVM viz. JRuby, Groovy n Scala : The Future : Part One http://tinyurl.com/cctn2l by @headius #
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Probably the one open source project in Sun portfolio that Oracle would support enthusiastically is OpenOffice. #speculative-thought #
@ashokjjr Yes. Strangely I still can’t think of opensolaris as mainstream open source. in reply to ashokjjr #
@most_alive imo oracle could treat opensolaris, virtualbox as “commercial o/s” (mk $ frm svcs, consltng) but openoffice as “competitive o/s” in [...]

@surya_s are you underestimating our power to convince ourselves of whats the need of the hour ? in reply to surya_s #
@surya_s f/w support makes it easy for those who “want to” unit test. Doesn’t make it hard to come up with reasons “not to”. in reply to surya_s #
@surya_s makes it difficult to make [...]

Enterprise microblogging – so what ?
RSS and ATOM feed extensions (userID and tags for search integration)
(tags: microblogging enterprise)

Can Oracle describe succinctly what business it is in ? #
Oracle buys Sun. Whither MySQL ? #
Peoplesoft, Siebel, BEA, Sun. Is Oracle the resting place of companies n technologies with a starred history and scarred present ? #
Blog post title looking for content : “Why Oracle’s acquisition of Sun is great news for Java and [...]

Discussing hypothesis w/o context considered unhelpful. The Gardening Analogy for Proj Mgmt http://tinyurl.com/d4s9xn (via @jurgenappelo) #

simple-build-tool – Google Code
(tags: scala build tool)

code:simplifying-jdbc [Scala Wiki]
(tags: scala java database programming jdbc)

szeiger.de » Blog Archive » A Type-Safe Database Query DSL for Scala
(tags: scala database article dsl)

Coderspiel / The awesomeness of Scala is implicit
(tags: scala programming article)

Shiny Things: Scala Baby-Steps
(tags: scala database mysql)

Java Thoughts and Other Stuff: Using Scala in Webwork/Struts 2, Part [...]

Is “fail” and “#fail” the most avoidable / regrettable term in twitter vocabulary ? #
Requesting references for scala web frameworks (lift is the only one I am aware of). #
The reason I suggested that #fail is avoidable was that it often ends up being used as a blanket judgement – baby with the bathwater. #
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DjangoTricks: Design Pattern for Reusable Apps: Getting into Details
(tags: django apps design pattern python)

erlang at hover.in , Devcamp Blr 09
(tags: erlang programming)

Spreadsheet « ActiveState Code
Use eval() to drive spreadsheet style logic. The sleeper feature of Py2.4 is the ability to use any object with a mapping interface as the locals argument to eval().
(tags: python spreadsheet [...]

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Resumed tumblelog. Subscribe to the RSS feed if interested (wont be tweeting tumbles). http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/ #
Objects as Actors by @debasishg #
Nice analogies between biology n software architecture RT: @iankits When Erlang makes Sense. http://tinyurl.com/dcvqf4 #

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Ikanobori Weblog » Language performance on the sum of a file.
print sum(sum(map(int, line.split())) for line in sys.stdin)
(tags: microbenchmark python ruby haskell c)

A simple micro benchmark : Language performance on the sum of a file : http://tinyurl.com/cgen9r Note the lines of code in each language. #
LOL! http://javagoogles.com/ in case u r wondering, its in response to this craigslist posting http://tinyurl.com/dlhqby #

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