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Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

#71
Another programming language: http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~anc505/code/hasp/hasp.html

I'm not doing any fancy compiler stuff - the target language is Haskell so that's all done for me.

*Edit: And I should probably say something about it :) Its an s-expression based language so it looks like a Lisp and you can use macros on it, it also reads by indentation if you want it to look like Python, and then the rest of it just comes from Haskell :)

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

#72
I'm working on a AWS stack based web crawler. It uses S3 and SimpleDB to coordinate instances. It's implemented in Python/Twisted, and extensible via plugins.

It has a low cost of entry in terms of code and costs and scales horizontally, so it's useful for all sorts of aggregation.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

#73
Back-testing a support vector machine -based text classification system that models daily stock news, looking for mispriced volatility. A big stealth project, with just the Ruby option pricer here:

http://tinyurl.com/chmk7p

Need much more realism than Black-Scholes for the model training!

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

#74
post #69

I'm developing a CSS generator called Stylish. It's pretty rudimentary right now, but progress is relatively quick (for me, anyway). Code: http://github.com/ionfish/stylish Docs: http://ionfish.github.com/stylish

You might want to consider naming it something else since there is already a firefox addon called stylish: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108

Yes they are different products but I still think there might be some confusion...

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

#75
post #69

I'm developing a CSS generator called Stylish. It's pretty rudimentary right now, but progress is relatively quick (for me, anyway). Code: http://github.com/ionfish/stylish Docs: http://ionfish.github.com/stylish

You might want to consider naming it something else since there is already a firefox addon called stylish: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108 Yes they are different products but I still think there might be some confusion...

There are a limited number of good names in the world! :)

To nitpick slightly, I wouldn't call my library a product. If you have any suggestions for alternative names I'd be happy to hear them.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

#76
post #10

I'm actually looking for a new name for my project, so maybe someone here will have a good idea? It's a framework for writing, running and analyzing simulations. It could take any kind of simulation: Physics, game theory, epidemic spread, electronics, whatever. It's in Python. This is where it currently lives: http://github.com/cool-RR/physicsthing/tree/master (Keep in mind it's still a very young project) The readme…

Simon?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

#77
Rudy! It's a development and deployment tool for Amazon Web Services that's configured via a Ruby DSL. It helps organize EC2 infrastructures into environments and roles (plus some other cool stuff).

http://github.com/solutious/rudy

    environment :stage do
      ami "ami-5394733a"
      size 'm1.small'

      role :app do
        positions 2
        addresses '11.22.33.44', '55.66.77.88'
        
        disks do                 # EBS volumes
          path "/rudy/disk1" do
            size 2
            device "/dev/sdr"
          end
        end
      end
      
      role :analyzer do
        ami "ami-6aff24aa"
      end
    end

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

#78
A .NET interpreter for embedded/constrained systems where MS.NET or Mono aren't suitable: http://www.dotnetanywhere.org/

It now implements most of the core .NET 2.0 spec, a usable subset of the base class library, and an implementation of a Graphics device suitable for embedded devices.

Not the fastest of .NET runtimes, but its disk/memory footprint is surprisingly small, and it (mostly) works!

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

#79
post #3

Right now (please call me on this sometime, it'd help me) I'm working on a clone of Burp, the industry standard web penetration testing tool, in Cocoa. I started with RubyCocoa, but I've ditched it for Objective C. It is (surprisingly) liberating to work in C after spending a year in Ruby; any time something looks expensive or naive, you just tell yourself, "what I'm doing here can't possibly be more expensive than w…

Never had I felt more like I was tricking software into doing what I want to do than when I was trying to use Peach. I mean Michael's a nice guy, but you email the peachfuzz list or him personally on issues you're having and he convinces you that it's you not using the tool correctly and that you really don't want the feature you're asking. Modifying code was hellish because it's just thousands of lines of kludge, written as far from Python's usual styles as possible.

Good stuff on the Burp clone. Any plans to publish it eventually?

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As for me, the last project I was working on is a complex structure analyzer plug-in for HexFiend along with basic plug-in functionality to support it.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

#80
I'm working on the API for my PDF/Web Form site http://www.doculicious.com. The initial release will allow reading of saved entries and posting of new entries. This is cool, 'cos it will let people use their own HTML forms to submit data and create PDF's from the templates they've created.
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