A sort of introductionary Alan Moore Interview aired this Thursday on BBC2, which non-UK residents can see on YouTube or elsewhere.
Month: March 2006
Programming languages and their relationship styles:
Smalltalk won’t meet you outside Smalltalk’s apartment…. assembler just lies there… Telling people you’re happy with FORTRAN is like telling people you’ll be happy taking care of your cats for the rest of your life and don’t really need another person.
The comments have some more good ones, mostly by
C likes to give cops the finger and grin and speed away. Mention that you’d like something, and C will pretend to ignore you; the next day, C will bring you one, no questions asked, and toss it to you with a you-know-you-want-me smirk that makes your heart race. Where did C get it? “It fell off a truck,” C says, putting away the boltcutters. You start to feel like C doesn’t know the meaning of “private” or “protected”: what C wants, C takes.
And:
Perl6: Like Perl, but after major body-alteration surgery, just to make you happy. Perl6’s body certainly looks younger and firmer, if you can overlook the frankensteinian scar tissue. Moreover, there are certain… enhancements. All of perl6’s joints bend both ways; all of perl6’s body parts are fully reconfigurable any way you like them. If your friends could see what you do with Perl6, they’d learn more about your taste than you necessarily want to make public.
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javascript tabs
I spent some time last week making a “tabs” UI with javascript/CSS, what Yahoo’s developer site calls “Module Tabs“, because they don’t navigate to other pages but rather show/hide parts of the existing page. What I came up with is this (here’s the javascript file and here’s the CSS). Of course, I only did it because I didn’t find an existing hack I could easily adapt. Then, tonight I read a blog post that links to two different implementations. Bah.
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DnD Characters
I set off to find something I could use to run D&D for my nephews. Somehow, looking for character sheets I found that someone had scanned his old character sheets, and someone else had helpfully written character sheets for the democratic presidential candidates (obviously dated, but funny).
I did find this elaborate but apparently sound Javascript character sheet generator, except it doesn’t let you pick spells. For spells, feats and monsters, the The Hypertext d20 SRD (v3.5 d20 System Reference Document) is the place to go. A totally awesome site.
Except, if you want to give out XP, you need the actual rulebooks, because that’s the one missing component they left out of “open gaming license” D&D.