Archive 9. November 2009

:: Clojure and Markdown (and Javascript and Java and...) - interesting post, because here the advantage of mixed languages on the JVM is fully utilized. Instead of writing a Markdown parser for Clojure, one in JavaScript is simply used via Rhino (JS in Java). Which also ensures that both the web client and the blog server can use the same implementation of Markdown.

for post in leo.blog():: Django-Jython 1.0.0 released! - not unimportant for a project at work: Django-Jython is finished. And included is the Oracle client, which we would also urgently need for the project. Nice.

What DNS Is Not - ACM Queue - about the bad habit of intercepting DNS queries and redirecting them to ad servers. T-Online has been doing the same for some time. Yes, you can turn it off if you jump through various hoops. I still consider it an audacity to introduce such nonsense only as an opt-out. IMO, this is an abuse of market position.