If you are involved with any kind of coding at all, I’m sure you’ll enjoy this remake of the “A Visit from St. Nicholas” poem.
He opened my laptop, and first installed Node
Who knew that old Santa had learned how to code,
His fingers were flying, his typing was quick,
How will I ever, repay ol’ St. Nick
Faces of Open Source is an on-going photographic documentation of the people behind the development and advancement of the open source revolution that has transformed the technology industry.
Given the immense contribution of these people to the world around us, I find it surprising that they are so far from the celebrity status and most people in the world won’t know any of these faces. Even people in technology sector itself, won’t probably name even half of these people by the picture alone. For some, even the name won’t mean anything.
Kudos to this project for trying to make these faces slightly more familiar and for giving credit where credit is due.
An innocent joke on Facebook brought in something really golden – Stack Overflow Buddy. It is a fun PHP library for all those of you who search for code examples on Stack Overflow and then copy-paste those into your projects.
Wow, how’s it work?
If you’re impressed, you should probably stop reading here.
- Split the camelCased function call into words
- Grab the top scoring PHP tagged questions with those words in the title from StackOverflow’s API
- Grab the top scoring answers for those questions
- Pull any and all code blocks from those answers
- Find the first code block that:
- Inteprets without error
- Contains one or more functions
- One of the functions has the same amount of arguments as were passed by the user
- Then we throw caution to the wind, eval, and call the new method!
This is absolutely brilliant!
This one is for all the geeky Rammstein fans :)
This TravisCI blog post welcomes AJ to the team. In it, there is a bit that caught my attention (except, of course, the one about bra burning):
If you’re so inclined, you can follow her on Twitter or run curl cv.soulshake.net.
Wait a second … A what? curl for the CV? I had to try it out. Here’s an even better way, for reading all the slides:
p=1; while [ $p -lt 9 ]; do curl -N cv.soulshake.net/$((p++)); read; done
Oh. My. God. Lo and behold, this is the coolest tech CV I’ve ever seen. Ever. Period. TravisCI is so lucky to have her!
P.S.: If you are interested in how this was done, here a couple of blog posts – one and two.