A JIT for grepping: jrep and rejit
Alexandre Rames su LWN: Jrep is a grep-like program powered by the rejit library. So it is “just another” grepping program, except that it is quite fast. Opportunities to improve regular expression matching performance are interesting for the speed gain...
Cathedrals, bazaars, and in between
I grandi classici tra i paradigmi dello sviluppo del software continuano a confrontarsi, stavolta sul blog di Greg Wilson: Having spent a chunk of the holidays trying to explain and justify the baroque procedures needed to work with our workshop...
Hats off to Mozilla
Doc Searls su Linux Journal, in un interessante articolo che ha catturato la mia attenzione: Ten years ago, we still were in what Tantek Çelik calls “the heyday of the independent Web”. Back then, it was easy to homestead on...
Etherpad 1.5
È disponibile la versione 1.5 di Etherpad :-F While this release is mostly a bugfix & performance release we have updated about 20% of the overall Etherpad code since 1.4.1 so we have given it a major release number. Our...
Why brands tweet "bae"
Annie Lowrey, su NYMag, pone un’interessante questione sul perché i brand continuano a intromettersi in qualsiasi cosa virale ci sia in rete: It was perfect. It was also pointless. Oreo produced that tweet because it could, not because it needed...