http://www.stsci.edu/~bsimon/index.html Links of Interest to Programmers http://tinyurl.com/y8hn57n or the past few months I've been meaning to get around to understanding PSGI and Plack; for various reasons, I guess. First, because it's always good to keep abreast of what's going on in the programming world; second, because they're by Miyagawa, and really, anything by Miyagawa is worth looking into; third, because I've been writing a bunch of different web applications recently and wanted to know what the state of the art was. http://tinyurl.com/y8bxrqb The flexibility argument goes something like the following. My data does not conform to a rigid relational schema. Hence, I cant be bound by the structure of a RDBMS and need something more flexible. This blog posting considers the performance argument; a subsequent posting will address the flexibility argument. http://tinyurl.com/ybpv2fv Integrated development environments make developing application fair easier. They highlight syntax, let you know if you have a compilation error, and allow you to step through your code among so many other things. Like all IDEs Eclipse has a bunch of little shortcuts and tools that can make your life a lot easier, I've compiled a list of several that I use on a daily basis. http://tinyurl.com/ykjjrug Earlier this week, while validating a website being launched for one of my clients with the W3C Validator Service, I decided to run a few other well known websites through the validator as well. All I really wanted to see was what doctypes were being used by some of the largest websites on the web. What I found was rather astonishing, if not disappointing and utterly upsetting.