There are some keepers here.

I picked up this fascinating presentation on Yahoo’s decision to switch to PHP, which includes a great deal on Yahoo’s inner workings, from Rafe Colburn earlier today. Now Slashdot has opened a thread.

An O’Reilly article covering pyKarel, “a Python implementation of Karel the Robot. Introduced in the 80’s, Karel was intended to jump-start students in the Pascal programming language. A virtual robot moves about a maze, interacting with walls and beepers, performing programmed tasks. It has a Pascal-like structure, but only five commands: move, turn left, pick beeper, put beeper, turn off. There are 18 or so conditionals that are mostly repetitious “if facing north”, or “if facing south.” There are no variables. Karel’s virtue is in being both visual and simple.” via ZopeNewbies.

Read the updates at status.blogger.com. I wonder what happened. Looks like they have the problem licked whatever it was – Quick Topic.

An eye opener (for some).

At ONJava, XML to PDF? FOP It.

Jon Udell, Rethinking the Java GUI.

mvnForum, open source Java based forum software.

More source code then you can shake a stick at. Gotta browse here sometime. There are probably fully functional games in this list.

I have temporarily disabled comments to configure my site similar to a project I am working on.

I forget where I first read Perl, the first postmodern computer language. Happy to have a link to it again. Here goes the related Slashdot thread.