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Just ran into this again, when we discussed programming langues here in cubicle world… How many languages do you know? 4? 10? 42? Try 515 - and see how to write “99 Bottles of Beer” in all of these languages. Brainfuck? Anyone?

So you thought, that designing with HTML and CSS would lead to boring designs? That you don’t have enough control over the layout of the page? Head over to the ZenGarden, sit down to look, change the designs and learn. [via Tom Coates]

In my current project I have the pleasure (?) to work with Perl. I found out that there are hundres (thousands?) of useful modules out there. Before they can be used however, they have to be downloaded an installed… Grief! Here’s the dummies guide to doing it: (Assuming a Cygwin installation on a Win32 box) Locate the module on Cpan Download the module. You have a module-version.tar.gz.tar file which is useless (or so it seems) ...

Vowe discusses the value of “WikiWiki in Domino. (Because people are starting to do that). Well - I’ve done it a couple of years ago - and I’ve had mixed joy from it. The lack of a regular expression parser in Notes has led to some quite ugly parsing code and not all of the Wiki features are available. Still - as a “gift” to the community: Here’s my NotesWiki for your pleasure. Do with this code whatever you like, feel free to laugh at me - whatever. ...

Here are applications for the P800 that I really like: ActiveDesk: When you flip open the phone, a summary of your calendar entries, tasks and messages appears. I like it better than Handy Day, YMMV Tipic is a Jabber chat client that supports AIM, ICQ and Yahoo Messenger. Cool! SymIRC is an IRC client Both are written in PJava and perform really nice. A fully connected phone, good GPRS coverage and connectivity applications are a great thing. I’m reconsidering my sceptisim on “mobile connectivity”. ...

When (If?) I find some time, expect me to try TikiWiki. It looks absolutely amazing…