Wednesday, 11th December 2002
Interview with Tim Perdue
OSDir: Interview with Tim Perdue. GForge and behind the scenes at SourceForge.
[... 13 words]Trade it on Trodo
Adrian Holovaty has revealed his previously hinted at secret project. Trodo.com is kind of an online bartering site
. You give away stuff you no longer have a use for to earn credits, which you can then spend on requesting free items from other people. It’s a very interesting idea, and the trading model is explained in depth in Adrian’s comments section.
Google roundup
I’ve missed out on a whole bunch of Google news lately (all of which has come via the Google Weblog). Google labs have a couple of interesting new demos; Google Viewer, a weird slideshow thing that cycles through search results for you using bizzare DHTML and Google Webquotes, which annotates the results of your Google search with comments from other websites
. Google have also published their End-of-Year Zeitgeist which offers a unique overview of the year’s events based on Google search statistics.
A new source of rants
Soup is Good is a new blog by a friend of Jeremy Zawodny. It looks like one to watch—two quality rants and counting.
[... 38 words]Lambda calculus links
An Introduction to Lambda Calculus and Scheme and Wikipedia’s Lambda Calculus page have both proved useful recently.
[... 19 words]Coursework frenzy again
Coursework frenzy is kicking in again. This time I have a large group project and two personal projects (one small, one large) due for Tuesday of next week. I’m clearing out my things-to-blog list and then I intend to knuckle down to some work.
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