A very interesting article by a guy who went and did what I have been thinking of doing myself: experimenting with using a genetic algorithm and translucent polygons to render (somewhat distorted but cool-looking) photos and other images.

Flymake is implemented as an Emacs minor mode. It runs the syntax check tool (the compiler for C++ files, perl for perl files, etc.) in the background, passing it a temporary copy of the current buffer and parses the output for known error/warning message atterns. Flymake then highlights erroneous lines (that is, lines for which at least one error or warning has been reported), and displays an overall buffer status in the mode line, as shown on the figure below.

TeamWall will display only the important information your team needs on a big screen. It rotates through all of them and one can jump to a specific one if needed. It’s display is designed to be readable from all across the room by all team members.

TeamWall is a great tool for your team of programmers to get condensed information about your code base. It integrates with data providers like Sonar, Jira or Teamcity to get the information you need.

Arachni uses various techniques to compensate for the widely heterogeneous environment of web applications. This includes a combination of widely deployed techniques (taint-analysis, fuzzing, differential analysis, timing/delay attacks) along with novel technologies (rDiff analysis, modular meta-analysis) developed specifically for the framework. This allows the system to make highly informed decisions using a variety of different inputs; a process which diminishes false positives and even uses them to provide human-like insights into the inner workings of web applications.

Currently, there aren’t any tools to grab all of the publisher-provided shorter URL in a standards-agnostic way. Tools that will grab either rev=”canonical” or rel=”shorturl”, but not both.

That’s where isshort.com comes in. isshort doesn’t care what URL shortening standard the publisher uses, it will find them all. This user-focused design will hopefully spur more sites and apps to provide their own short URLs.

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Currently, isshort.com supports short URLs using the rel=”canonical”, rel=”shortlink”, and rel=”shorturl” standards.

Also, isshort shortens Amazon.com (amzn.com), YouTube (youtu.be), and NPR (n.pr) links.

Many development teams are used to making heavy use of branches in version control. Distributed version control systems make this even more convenient. Thus one of the more controversial statements in Continuous Delivery is that you can’t do continuous integration and use branches. By definition, if you have code sitting on a branch, it isn’t integrated. One common case when it seems obvious to use branches in version control is when making a large-scale change to your application. However there is an alternative to using branches: a technique called branch by abstraction.

Appmakr is a browser-based platform designed to make creating your own iPhone app quick and easy. Using existing content and social networking feeds, AppMakr is a user-friendly system allowing for the creation of native iPhone applications.

I started to write an article explaining how to package a Perl module but it got too long and detailed. Let's start with a simple case and build the smallest possible but still sane package. Later we can go in more details and see alternative ways.

In this example I will show how you can perform a standard Maven build whilst keeping your unit and integration tests in separate packages.

Other techniques specify using either a naming convention or a separate module to do this. This example allows true package separation and is self contained in a single profile so it can easily be used across projects. Alternative profiles can also be created for different types of test.

This solution lends itself well to generating code coverage metrics using Sonar and Jacoco.

Sonar PHP Plugin provides PHP language support to Sonar. The plugin enables all Sonar builtin features for PHP projects. It relies on well known analysis tools for PHP: PHP Unit, PHP Depend, PHPMD, PHPCPD and PHP_CodeSniffer to provide some additionnal metrics and to detect violations.