The Vatican newspaper has published an article saying "intelligent design" is not science and that teaching it alongside evolutionary theory in school classrooms only creates confusion.
This is a review of 10 PHP frameworks. "PHP frameworks are the latest hot topic in the PHP community, and new frameworks are being released daily. With over 40 frameworks available it's difficult to decide which framework works best for you"
Developed programmes that apply genetic algorithms to blocks of code/circuits/ideas, instead of starting from a crude framework and building on top of that. Fascinating, logical, and apparently works. in Popular Science
This letter was submitted to U.S. president George W. Bush via the Swiss embassy in Tehran on May 8, 2006, originally written in Persian. This translation provided by the Islamic Republic News Agency, official news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Ward Cunningham, creator of the wiki, said the power of collaborative development has only just begun to be realized, and open-source software will continue to spur more collaboration and more innovation.
By Christopher Monckton - In what many will see as a highly controversial polemic, Christopher Monckton disputes the 'facts' of this impending apocalypse and accuses the UN and its scientists of distorting the truth
By Pieter Hintjens - That simple question stirs up controversy and divides the IT industry into two camps like no other. Every group has their own ideology about software patents.
The GNU C compiler apparently still permits this, and the VC++ 2005 compiler permits it too, though it issues a Level-4 warning if it’s C code, and a Level-2 warning if it’s C++ code.
Numbers for Fantasy Worlds, a distillation of broad possibilities drawn from a variety of historical reference points, from periods ranging from the 11th to 15th centuries as a good model for a trad-fantasy gameworld.
the story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. The entirety of the production files used to make it (roughly 7 Gigabytes of data) is also available.
by Alan Green - These checklists are a tool for helping you focus attention on the critical aspects of your project at the different stages of its lifecycle.
blog entry about static code analyzers such as Checkstyle, PMD, FindBugs etc. and focuses on some of the issues that they spot in code. (PDM is great also for C++)
Target the parts of your applications that take the most time, by Martyn Honeyford "Improving the performance of your applications is rarely a wasted effort, but it's not always clear which functions the program is spending most of its execution time on. Learn how to pinpoint performance bottlenecks using gprof for both user-space and system calls on Linux®."
by Steven M. LaValle. Presents a unified treatment of many different kinds of planning algorithms. The subject lies at the crossroads between robotics, control theory, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and computer graphics.