linkage
C++ / Java / Python / Ruby
Ben pointed me to this great side-by-side comparison of C++, Java, Python and Ruby.
the year in review
Lucas Gonze: “Year in and year out people do it on Saturday night and confess it on Sunday morning. Download is the new fuck.”
Ta-da
The folks behind Basecamp (which I’m currently checking out in that ‘I’ll write about this one of these months’ way) have just released a new free to-do list manager. Check it out.
Technorati tag search
Technorati’s new Tag Search is fantastic. It aggregates results from flickr, del.icio.us, and blogs. The blog tags are based on your entry categories, but you can also tag links within an entry in the same way that you add xfn links, with the rel attribute. Very interesting.
Quick Links
Just a couple of quick ones:
Lachy has a really comprehensive 3 part Guide to Unicode which should be required reading for all geeks.
Caterina posts some interesting stats on the holiday upload crush at Flickr. About 20 images are uploaded every second. Wow. That’s a lot of traffic. If you haven’t tried Flickr [...]