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No, we’re not talking Windows XP, but eXtreme Programming. (Small but important difference) Jim Weirich is doing an interesting thing in the Cincinnati XP Users Group. They meet once a month to not only talk about XP, but to actually practice it. Doing this, they write software for a children hospital and learn XP (and they probably have fun too) As a practicioner of ExtremeHacking (that is working alone, using some of the XP methods) I’d be extremely interested in starting something like this in Switzerland (and maybe even in Zurich). There is a XpAdoptersGroupSwitzerland and I have posted the same on the mailing list, but I’ll repeat it here: ...

Damn - David & the assorted crew are so fast. I have the development timeline of RubyOnRails in my Bloglines and it’s almost always the feed with the most new entries. Now Rails 0.9.4 has been released and there’s a lot of stuff, that again will make my life easier. Mange Tak, David! Working with Rails has been an incredible ride, I have learnt a bunch and I’m getting closer and closer to actually deploy and use Amuda for real. Developing in Rails is refreshing simple. Many times, one single line of code does what in Java would have taken dozens. ...

If you have this: httpd: could not open document config file /opt/apache2/httpd.conf when you try to start your Apache 2 with a different config file, then do this: /opt/apache2/bin/httpd -f /opt/apache2/conf/httpd.conf It looks like Apache doesn’t like relative paths when it’s called with a different config file.

Solche Leute würden gerne einen Plattenspieler haben, der auf Luft schwebt, der von einem Riemen angetrieben wird, den ein blinder, 89jähriger Franzose in einem Bergdorf aus seinen Achselhaaren gedrechselt hat Boxen kaufen Zum niederknien, Herr Dahlmann! Und wie es dass trifft. Siehe dazu auch AV Fetishism (Nicht dass es qualitativ mit ihrer Schreibe vergleichbar wäre)

So, how does a [markov chain entry] 1 look like? Thanks - but you thought, that my sheltered existance, in my business model is in a matter rest. After almost never end. So far 76% copied, next line of these programs would fail. No - do you? Couldn’t have said it better myself. This is a markov chain that has been trained by all my blog writings.

Writing text and playing with text is all good fun. Using Markov Chains one can generate text that is almost readable, almost understandable, but not quite. Markov Chains analyses the frequency of words in relation to another. Analysing text basically means counting which words follow each other. Producing text is done by picking a word and then looking up which word has come up after that in the text samples, picking one and then using this new word as the basis for determining the next one. ...