As promised, my chapter from O’Reilly’s Beautiful Code book is now online under a free license: Subversion’s Delta Editor: Interface
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The default category for posts on this site; the equivalent of “Uncategorized” in a fresh WordPress installation :-).
Book Purge.
It was time. There were stacks of books sitting on the floor, for lack of space to shelve them. Even
Continue readingOSCON, Swedish Pirates, and more.
I don’t normally do “What’s Karl been up to lately?” posts, feeling that people would probably rather read short articles
Continue reading“Beautiful Code” has arrived…
…er, well, the book has anyway. My copies of Beautiful Code are here: Appropriately, the book itself is physically beautiful.
Continue readingWhat Would Euler Do?
I was going through a pile of papers today and found some old correspondence with the Mathematical Association of America.
Continue readingGo see Will Franken. Now.
If you live in or near San Francisco, please go see Will Franken‘s show at The Marsh as soon as
Continue readingAnswering Augusto…
A student named Augusto Pedroza posted a comment here recently, a comment containing such a large and complex question that
Continue readingWhen is Open Source not Open Source?
At FOO Camp this weekend, I attended an impromptu gathering convened by Danese Cooper and Michael Tiemann, both of whom are
Continue readingEmbarrassment-based health care.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Horizon of New Jersey has contributed an interesting new proposal to the national health care debate:
Continue readingKeepin’ it real for the Google Summer of Code students.
I’m a big fan of Google’s Summer of Code program — it’s brought a lot of new developers to the Subversion project,
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