Metaowl is life!. Wow, just realized that on June 16th, it's the 6th birthday of the Meta Owl! By now, almost 8700 posts have been collected. And in the meantime, the automatic caching of the posts has paid off, because one or the other blog (for example, my old muensterland.org address has been gone for a while) has disappeared, but the content (at least the texts) is still accessible. The whole thing has even survived several server moves unscathed.
Archive 10. May 2011
Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Skype for Nearly $8 Billion - WSJ.com. Ugh. Skype is already quite a mess (unfortunately a necessary mess for me), but if Microsoft now "improves" it, it's going to be quite funny ...
The Ark In Space: Manul – the Cat that Time Forgot. An early type of cat, essentially unchanged for millions of years. So something like a living fossil in plush.
bconstantin / django_polymorphic. Why am I only finding this now? This is a very nice thing for Django projects with inherited models - as soon as you make accesses to a common model class, you only get instances of the common model class with Django - but with Django-Polymorphic you get instances of the concrete subclasses. In principle, this makes the ORM more of an object database. However, this might come at the expense of performance, as more SQL queries are generated.
obensonne / hg-autosync. An extension for Mercurial that implements automatic syncs between working directories via a central repository. Can be executed manually as a command or in daemon mode (then it simply runs cyclically at intervals). This way you can do something like a controlled Dropbox - only the included files are synchronized. I would prefer a combination of inotify and xmpp Notify instead of the interval solution - this way the daemon would not constantly start up. But something like this could perhaps even be built from it. Update there is already such a thing.
Kirk Tuck: Approval. Tacit Approval. Implied Approval and "Street Photography.". There's also something that always makes me think: how to deal with street photography? It doesn't happen to me very often - I usually don't photograph people (or only as a side note), but part of it is also simply because it makes me uncomfortable to just photograph someone. It's just not really my thing.
Mixing it up: when F# meets C#. As you never program in a closed room, the connections between languages are quite important - and especially on platforms like .NET and JVM. The mappings of F# data types to C# data types and the use of these look quite interesting. Using C# data from F# is trivial, but the other way around there are some peculiarities. A similar situation exists with Scala and Java.
philikon / weaveclient-chromium. Hmm, a Mozilla Sync client as an extension for Chrome. Unfortunately, there is nowhere properly indicated how to install it and some comments on the net suggest that it probably does not run stably with newer versions. But maybe still take a look if I find some spare time. With this I could then, for example, connect Chrome on Mac or Linux with Firefox Mobile on Android. Since on Android the normal browser can't even sync with Google's own desktop browser (which is really embarrassing), this might be something.