Cross-pollinate. Andrew Chen on the rake-devel mailing list:
I just released FRUIT, a FORTRAN unit testing framework on
sourceforge. (https://sourceforge.net/projects/fortranxunit/) The FORTRAN stuff was not exciting, but those 2 points are worth mentioning:
1. Rake is really a flexible build system. It can handle many things over make file, such as handling generated source codes. It is astonishing to compare the size of rakefile and makefile (about 30 lines vs. 500 lines). I used one technique of rake_base, so that all common tasks are defined in this file, and each rakefile includes it.
2. I implemented rSpec features in FORTRAN, that is pretty cool :-) So that someone who have to do FORTRAN can make TDD, and executable requirements!
Rails SDB. Martin Rehfeld adds another option for using Amazon’s SimpleDB from Rails. Much like DeHorrible, it’s a proxy service, and Martin shows you how to use it from ActiveResource. But DeHorrible is mainly “applying REST couldn’t be that hard, could it?” commentary/experiment, Martin’s code looks more like something you’ll want to use in real life.
SOA lives on. Through the mainframe. Or was it, mainframe lives on through SOA? You’ve got to wonder, who’s hanging on to whom for dear life.
Aguri. Two things binary radix trees can do. Search performance that depends on key size, not tree size. And lexicographic matching. Aguri starts there and adds heuristic to balance the tree into optimal search paths. Pretty nifty and I can think of a few use cases not specific to routing.
Halting poetry. The halting problem explained in poetry. Wonderful and funny and only lacking a sound track.
Picture, the bad usability calendar (via Zoli)