A Common Lisp web startup test-case, two years after the Reddit switch
The entire codebase of stix.to is written in Common Lisp. That is to say, html output is written in s-expressions and all our Javascript is written in Parenscript (if we choose to ignore a few quick hacks).
Fallen Frukt
rlwrap runs the specified command, intercepting user input in order to provide readline’s line editing, persistent history and completion. rlwrap tries to be as transparent as possible, keeping track of command’s terminal settings, so that it can do the right thing when command asks for single keypresses or for a password.
Hmm. Good idea. There’s a Mac port version.
PureText lets you cut and paste just the text from documents
PureText is a freeware app for Windows which simplifies the cut and paste process by automatically stripping out formatting and images, in order to paste the results in a pure text format.
Lifehacker Australia — This is FREE – no excuses now.
In February I wrote about removing test noise. 10 months later, I finally took the time to write the unit testing framework I’ve been wanting for the past year: expectations
Jay Fields Thoughts — This is an interesting idea, and at first consideration does appear to occupy a ‘hole’ in the testing framework hierarchy. I think I’m going to see what happens if I combine this with rspec to test some very annoying and complex code I’m working on.
Samples Updated for AIR Beta 3
What started as a couple dozen examples has also now grown to be over forty (40) AIR samples, to include a number of full applications.
Kevin Hoyt — That’s a lot of work and should be very useful for anyone trying to get a handle on AIR.
Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors.
It extracts all the selectors from all the stylesheets on the page you’re viewing, then analyzes that page to see which of those selectors are not used. The data is then stored so that when testing subsequent pages, selectors can be crossed off the list as they’re encountered.
This is really nice.
The Darcs package installers have been updated to use the latest release of darcs, 1.0.9. We’ve also added the bash completion file to the install. Read the README during the install process if you want to see how to use it.
Fivesquare Software — Solved a problem for me on Leopard – namely that you can’t build ghc so you can’t build darcs.
Wouldn’t the services menu be much more useful if it weren’t overcrowded by services you never even thought of using?
Many Tricks — Yes.
Coworking is cafe-like community/collaboration space for developers, writers and independents.
XRAY is a bookmarklet for Internet Explorer 6 , and Webkit and Mozilla based browsers (including Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla). Use it to see the box model for any element on any web page.
This is very cool!
The Closures ControversyJoshua Bloch at Parleys.com - a Belgian Java User Group initiative — Oh Dear! this does not look good.
Vim support for ScalaIf you want to use scala with vim, these are the files you will need (it was way too hard to find these).
