Brugge Blog

In a fascinating paper, “Googlearchy: How a Few Heavily-Linked Sites Dominate Politics on the Web”, the authors put forth their research findings that web sites of political groups seem to have the same type of visibility characteristics as other categories of web sites - that is, that a few big, well-known sites are visited and […]

The name draws you in, then the concept hooks you: a dynamic language modeled on concepts from Python and Ruby but with its roots (and branches) in Java. Groovy just sounds very fun, to the ear and to the Java-edged mind. With languages like these graduating from “scripting languages” or “little languages” to the more […]