Awesome! Been wanting to build something like this for a while. One of the things the might be useful is the notion of which components of a stack are the most mature.
definitely on the todo list.
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#12Interesting idea. Suggestion: sort the categories at the top by how likely a project is to need/use them. Without getting into religious arguments, I think a fair example would be "language" and "webserver" should sort higher than "graph-store" and "mapreduce".
Also might be a good idea to define the categories for newbies. Most of the categories will need explanation for newbies.
Cool idea, though. I used to use jakarta.apache.org for a similar purpose.
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#13Cool idea! Definitely makes research a lot easier! Any reason why CSS isn`t on the list of languages? My web stack in the past has included CSS pre-processers, like LESS and Sass.
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#14What I would be more interested is interconnectivity between these elements of the stack, which rdbms have an API for the language I have selected for example.
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#15Awesome! I would love to see a "this is my stack" tool: let people choose parts (maybe in an easy click and drag way) to show their complete stack. With a few stack data points, you could have templates, which users can start with and tweak to show their exact stack.
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#16ohloh.net has a "stacks" feature that crowd-sources this kind of information. It would be neat to tie these together.
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#17One small point - I found it quite hard to read. When I first saw it I assumed it was just some type of tag cloud until I realised that the link on the left is the category.
Also any plans for having it so that I can start with a language, get a list of data-stores that can talk to my chosen language, then get a list of web-servers and so on until I've chosen my stack. Then building on this it would be great if I could get all the API's for the chosen stack!
Thanks for the great little tool!
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#18What I would be more interested is interconnectivity between these elements of the stack, which rdbms have an API for the language I have selected for example.
You could load it into Neo4j and generate some connectivity visualizations.
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#19Add cherokee under webserver. Lovely configuration, fast, flexible.
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#20I maintain something like this personally, in the form of private structured notes, and I know other engineers that do as well. Except we go beyond listing all possible things that can fit into a given category, into instead making quality and suitability judgments about them. What's "best" or the no-brainer/default for a given role, either in the general case or in various special cases. It's a very useful professional technique.
To wit, I generated the following page from my structured notes, and added it to my public website, a few weeks ago: