On SPITBOL: Stop The Presses. Time to Rewrite Mod_Rewrite.

I just saw, via Intertwingly, that there is a complete book about Apache mod_rewrite. The book runs 160 pages.
The intertwingly post made mention of regular expressions, and so I went over to ASF to learn more about this irregular feat: Apache Module mod_rewrite.
The project description begins with:

This module uses a rule-based rewriting engine [...]

On Programming: Why Ruby Rubs Me the Wrong Way

The most idiotic programming language I have ever encountered is Ruby.
For example, I recently found the following “gem” via Planet Intertwingly: [1]

A gem called “bad-behavior” that has a lib loadpath, but puts server.rb, initializer.rb, and omg.rb at the top-level. In omg.rb, the gem does Dir["#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/*"].each {|f| require f }. This works fine when the [...]

On Programming For Adults: The NASM Macro Processor

One of the advantages of being an assembly language programmer is that you get to use an assembler.
Only assembly language programers know what an assembler is, so the best assemblers are written by the most dedicated assembly language programmers, the masters of our trade. [1]
I recently put the NASM folks to a test. I predicted [...]

On Programming in Assembly Language: The 49ers

This continues my series of posts about programming in assembly language.
Evidence, suggests that only 1 in 10,000 or so programmers active today has even a clue about how a computer operates.
For example a colleague — who does know assembly language — recently had dinner with a former senior IBM Research executive — [...]

On Computing: Alpha 400 MIPS 400MHz 128MB 1GB 7″ Ultralite Netbook Linux

I just received my first, and I expect it won’t be the last, Alpha 400 MIPS 400MHz 128MB 1GB 7″ Ultralite Netbook Linux from Geeks.com. [1]
I can attest that it works, as I used mine to write this post.
The display, while quite small, is very crisp. The text is as easy to read [...]