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Revision: 611
          http://assorted.svn.sourceforge.net/assorted/?rev=611&view=rev
Author:   yangzhang
Date:     2008-03-05 13:15:08 -0800 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008)

Log Message:
-----------
added and updated recommendations; some fixes

Modified Paths:
--------------
    personal-site/trunk/Makefile
    personal-site/trunk/src/index.txt
    personal-site/trunk/src/recommendations.txt

Modified: personal-site/trunk/Makefile
===================================================================

--- personal-site/trunk/Makefile	2008-03-05 20:45:06 UTC (rev 610)
+++ personal-site/trunk/Makefile	2008-03-05 21:15:08 UTC (rev 611)
@@ -23,10 +23,12 @@
 $(INDEX): $(DARK)
 	ln -sf plain.html $(INDEX)
 
-$(PLAIN): src/index.txt src/header.html out
+$(PLAIN): src/index.txt src/header.html out src/footer.html src/recommendations.txt
 	pandoc -s -S --tab-stop=2 -H src/header.html src/index.txt \
 		-c plain.css | \
 		$(MUNGEMAIL) > $(PLAIN)
+	pandoc -s -S --tab-stop=2 -H src/header.html src/recommendations.txt \
+		-c plain.css -o out/recommendations.html
 
 $(DARK): src/index.txt src/header.html src/dark-prologue.html src/dark-epilogue.html out
 	pandoc -s -S --tab-stop=2 -H src/header.html src/index.txt \

Modified: personal-site/trunk/src/index.txt
===================================================================
--- personal-site/trunk/src/index.txt	2008-03-05 20:45:06 UTC (rev 610)
+++ personal-site/trunk/src/index.txt	2008-03-05 21:15:08 UTC (rev 611)
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
 
 <!-- TODO upload -->
 
-[WebTables]: webtables-presentation-google07.pdf
+[WebTables]: slides/webtables-presentation-google07.pdf
 
 [Scalable Resilient Overlay Networks]: http://nms.csail.mit.edu/ron/
 
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
 
 <!-- TODO: mirror this pdf -->
 
-[Guarded Atomic Actions for Haskell]: http://www.mit.edu/~amdragon/projects/gaah-6.827.pdf
+[Guarded Atomic Actions for Haskell]: papers/gaah.pdf
 
 [TelegraphCQ]: http://telegraph.cs.berkeley.edu/
 [Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions]: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/
@@ -177,6 +177,11 @@
 - 6.033 Computer Systems Engineering (TA, spring 2007)
 - 6.867 Machine Learning (fall 2007)
 
+Stuff
+-----
+
+- [Software recommendations](recommendations.html)
+
 Links
 -----
 
@@ -186,28 +191,6 @@
 - [PBF Comics](http://www.pbfcomics.com/)
 - [Tumbolia](http://jorendorff.blogspot.com/)
 
-<div class="footer">
-  <p>Styles: <a href="plain.html">Plain</a> | <a href="dark.html">Dark</a></p>
-  <p>Valid XHTML 1.0 (<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">re-validate</a>)</p>
-  <p>Valid CSS (<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">re-validate</a>)</p>
-</div>
-<div id="spamlink" style="position: absolute; top: -250px; left: -250px;"><a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/yang/appraisal.php">pattern</a></div>
-<!--
-<style>a.pudris{color:#FFF;font:bold 10px arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;}</style><table cellspacing="0"cellpadding="0"border="0"style="background:#999;width:230px;"><tr><td valign="top"style="padding: 1px 2px 5px 4px;border-right:solid 1px #CCC;"><span style="font:bold 30px arial,sans-serif;color:#666;top:0px;position:relative;">@</span></td><td valign="top" align="left" style="padding:3px 0 0 4px;"><a href="http://www.projecthoneypot.org/" class="pudris">MEMBER OF PROJECT HONEY POT</a><br/><a href="http://www.unspam.com"class="pudris">Spam Harvester Protection Network<br/>provided by Unspam</a></td></tr></table>
--->
-
-<!-- Google Analytics -->
-<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
-</script>
-<script type="text/javascript">
-  _uacct = "UA-1322324-1";
-  urchinTracker();
-</script>
-
-<!-- Performance Metrics -->
-<script src="http://pmetrics.performancing.com/102.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
-<noscript><p><img alt="Performancing Metrics" src="http://pmetrics.performancing.com/102ns.gif" /></p></noscript>
-
 <!-- Extreme Tracking -->
 <div id="eXTReMe"><a href="http://extremetracking.com/open?login=yzzororg">
 <img src="http://t1.extreme-dm.com/i.gif" style="border: 0;"
@@ -232,15 +215,6 @@
 img.height=1;
 </script>
 
-<!-- Quantcast -->
-<!-- Start Quantcast tag -->
-<script type="text/javascript" src="http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js"></script>
-<script type="text/javascript">
-_qacct="p-45nKPbm9DJOeE";quantserve();</script>
-<noscript>
-<img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-45nKPbm9DJOeE.gif" style="display: none" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast"/></noscript>
-<!-- End Quantcast tag -->
-
 <!--
 vim:ft=mkd:et:sw=2:ts=2:nocin
 -->

Modified: personal-site/trunk/src/recommendations.txt
===================================================================
--- personal-site/trunk/src/recommendations.txt	2008-03-05 20:45:06 UTC (rev 610)
+++ personal-site/trunk/src/recommendations.txt	2008-03-05 21:15:08 UTC (rev 611)
@@ -1,21 +1,22 @@
-Useful tools
-------------
+Software recommendations
+------------------------
 
-Some random underdogs.
+Some underdogs that more people should know about.
 
-- [toast]: Automated software installation with safe compartmentalization. Works
-  without hassle 90% of the time. Supports a variety of package types, e.g.:
-  autotools, plain prefix-dir, plain make, [distutils], [Cabal], etc.
+- [toast]: Automated software retrieval, compilation, installation, and removal
+  with safe compartmentalization and non-root usage. Works without hassle 90%
+  of the time.  Supports a variety of package types, including autotools, plain
+  prefix-dir, plain make, [distutils], [Cabal], and more.
 
-[toast]: http://toastball.net/
+[toast]: http://toastball.net/toast/
 [Cabal]: http://www.haskell.org/cabal/
 [distutils]: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-distutils.html
 
 - [pandoc]: [Markdown] done right.  A sane markup (structured text) language
   supporting a variety of input and output formats, including HTML, man, and
-  TeX.  [AsciiDoc] is a close runner-up.  [ReST] starts to become unreadable.
-  If only there were some work on making these markup language extensible and
-  flexible enough to be used in everything from [wikis] to docstrings.
+  TeX.  [AsciiDoc] is a close runner-up; [ReST] is more complex.  Hopefully the
+  future will yield markup languages with greater extensibility and enough
+  flexibility to be used in everything from [wikis] to comment documentation.
 
 [AsciiDoc]: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
 [Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@
 [pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
 [wikis]: http://code.google.com/p/pandocwiki/
 
-- [rubber]: a usable frontend for LaTeX and all its friends: BibTeX, image
+- [rubber]: A usable frontend for LaTeX and all its friends: BibTeX, image
   converters, etc.  Similar to but more modular than [latexmk].
 
 [rubber]: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~beffara/soft/rubber/
@@ -31,35 +32,39 @@
 
 <!-- TODO ensure the following is formatted correctly. -->
 
-- [Gobby]: A collaborative text editor.  I always end up underestimating the
-  utility and power of collaborative editing.  Examples of things I've used it
-  for:
+- [Gobby]: A collaborative text editor.  Examples of things I've used it for:
   - peer programming
-  - explaining things to multiple parties, using this as a whiteboard
-  - online meetings: everybody ends up communicating exclusively in the
-    document, and no more meeting minutes are necessary
-  If only the quirks could be removed from Emacs' displays on different
-  frames.  Vim also has a "collaborative editing" as an item sponsors can vote
-  on.  UIs of tomorrow should support multiple simultaneous user inputs.
+  - whiteboard
+  - online meetings (everybody ends up communicating exclusively in the
+    document; you get meeting minutes for free!)
 
+  Emacs has `make-frame-on-display`, but it's quirky (e.g. going to the
+  minibuffer locks up everything else).  Vim also has a "collaborative editing"
+  as an item sponsors can vote on. [screen] can be a poor man's collaborative
+  editor (it's decent as a whiteboard, at least).
+
 [Gobby]: http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/
+[screen]: http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
 
-- [Opera]: And if I trusted it with my mail, M2 would also be very far ahead as
-  well (alas, it's too buggy).  [KHTML] is probably the closest-performing
+- [Opera]: The fastest, smallest browser I've used is also the most usable and
+  comes with the most features out of the box. Its M2 mail client is awesome
+  too, but alas, it's too buggy.  [KHTML] is probably the closest-performing
   engine, but I've found it to be too crash-prone.
 
 [Opera]: http://www.opera.com/
 [KHTML]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML
 
-- [gprof2dot]: A handy tool for visualizing the results of gprof, the Google
-  CPU profiler, python cProfile, and more.
+- [gprof2dot]: A handy tool for visualizing the callgraph results of gprof, the
+  Google CPU profiler, python cProfile, and more.
 
 [gprof2dot]: http://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/Gprof2Dot
 
-- [wtf]: A filter for `g++`'s obscure page-long template errors. Error messages
-  are now pretty and colored. See also [gstlfilt].
+- [wtf]: A filter for `g++`'s obscure page-long template errors. Resulting
+  error messages are readable and beautified. See also [gstlfilt].
 
 [wtf]: http://nmstl.sourceforge.net/doc/nmstl-guide.html
 [gstlfilt]: http://www.bdsoft.com/tools/stlfilt.html
 
-- [asdf]: 
+<!--
+vim:ft=mkd:et:sw=2:ts=2:nocin
+-->


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