Reek-Gives you confidence when code making.

Category : Software

Reek is an open source software which is written in Ruby. I used to hesitate to show anyone the source code that I made when I just started to learn about programing. I thought the code that I wrote was not good enough and I thought maybe I should write more based on standard.

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Checking with a sample code

There are some basic rules to writing a code, of course. I notice that they use more DRY (Don’t repeat yourself) rules recently. Before you want to show your code to someone, you might want to use Reek to check your code.

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CDE – run a binary program over distros

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CDE packages environment and runs common binaries on different distributions.

CDE is OSS for Linux. In Linux world, it is thought as natural that we should download and compile source code  to run. Configure(s) and make(s) would absorb environment difference on various distributions and servers.

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not available on Mac OSX though…

On script languages such as Ruby, Python, PHP or Perl, they run code in execution engines to absorb differences among individual OS as well. In the same way, CDE absorbs these differences among various distributions and enables to run the same binaries.

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dnsmap – searching subdomain information

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dnsmap is an open source software for Mac OSX/Linux. Usually, when launching a new service,  get a new domain or subdomains are often separated. One of the methods to create a directory, they would somehow lacking in novelty.
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Come out of  lot

Thus, if you search the subdomain then it could lead to a list of services will have that domain. If you want to look into the domain using hacking techniques dnsmap unexpected encounter might have used to try.

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namebench Benchmarks DNS near You

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namebench is an open-source software for Windows / Mac OS X / Linux. There are some ways to accelerate your network performance, and one of the best choices is to select the best DNS. If you use slow-responding or late-updating DNS, you cannot take advantages of your fast network. namebench will help you to choose the best DNS.

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Benchmarking DNS

namebench is a product output from Google’s 20% project, to take DNS benchmarking. You can test responses from DNSes, including global DNS providers. CUIs are provided for Windows and Linux, while GUI is for Mac OS X.

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memcache-top Displays memcached Status like top

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Installation cases of web cache are increasing in recent web-system developments. Many frameworks for web applications support web cache by default. Memcached comes to the top of the list.
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You can check memcached status like top.

Memcached is so light-weight and functions useful-to-be are hardly implemented, even status monitoring. An independently developed tool may resolve this situation.

Today we introduce memcache-top, a command-line script to show memcached’s status.

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Cinderella-Transform your PC environment at once

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Cinderella is an open source software for Mac OSX. You all know the story of Cinderella. It starts out with Cinderella who lives with her very mean step-mother and step-sisters. One day, with a kind witch’es help, Cinderella made it to the Grand Ball with the most beautiful dress. This story finishes when Cinderella gets married to a handsome prince and lives happily ever after. It’s a happy (miraculous) ending story!

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Installation starts with 1 line

Cinderella ,which is named after the well known Cinderella story, is a software that also has the magic to transform your Mac OSX. If you want to tweak your PC like a real developer or if you think changing a certain PC environment is too much, Let’s all fall under the magic spell of Cinderella!
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Text2ePub-clj – Convert plain text into .epub on Clojure

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Text2ePub-clj is freeware written in Java/Clojure (the source code is accessible publicly). Although rich document with photos, graphs, drawings might not be too bad, the basis of  developers should be text file. It is easy to write or edit. Furthermore, we can write it hand over hand using a favorite text editor.

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making text into ePub

Not only developers but also novelists can compete only in attractive writing using text, omitting extra figures or character decorations. Text2ePub-clj will help us bind such text files into ePub, which is the basic format of e-books.

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PyMacAdmin, controls Mac OS X by command line

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PyMacAdmin is open source software of Python utilities. I’m very interested in this software, but I regret that I’ve lost Mac OS X 10.5 environment on my computer…  Though we can execute various operations by using a terminal on Mac OS X because it is based on Unix,  there are still operations that we can’t execute on it by a terminal.

The Installer of PyMacAdmin is provided.

For example, it seems that we can’t operate the network settings or the access to the Keychain by a terminal on Mac OS X 10.5.  (I’m not sure about the current version.)  PyMacAdmin resolves these matters and enables us to operate them by a terminal.

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Gow (Gnu On Windows) – A lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Gow is one of OSS products for MS Windows.
For those who usually use Linux or Mac OS X, command line operations are real pains when they switch to Windows. As we have no choise but to use GUI on it, it would be convenient if we can do some work on a command line.

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Over 130 commands

In that case, I used to use Cygwin. But I didn’t like it bacause of its frequent changes of registries and the naming “cygdrive” itself.
If you want to use just commands simply, try Gow.

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