Labnotes

(R)Spec. Looks like RSpec is becoming the reference implementation for modern test frameworks. Besides the copious Ruby clones, and the various language ports (from Scala to FORTRAN), it’s also used with blatant disregard for language boundaries. Here’s RSpec for C/C++.

Firefox 3. Absolutely. Brilliant. There are some improvements to the UI, nothing big if you’re counting features, but having used it for a while, feels like a significant upgrade. Native UI integration is sweet. It’s fast, fast, fast, and doesn’t slow down for all my open tabs. Most extensions don’t work yet and it crashes once a day, but it’s still beta. Can’t wait for the final release.

CouchDB goes Apache. Vote just passed.

Overheard on Twitter. Via Mathew Ingram:

@spdemac: If MS and Yahoo merge, their search will be know as “Microwho?”. Small, forgettable and unused.

Reverse eval. The opposite of eval, parsing code back to source, is an interesting idea with few practical applications. But if you build it, they will come. Check out how Assert 2.0 does away with assert_* overload.

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