mjg123 on github

By day, I use Nokia's internal SCM tools, but by night I use github. A lot. For personal projects and for experimental ideas and just sharing things between the various places that I use computers. My main github page might be quite chaotic, and does not include some of the projects which I collaborate on with others. Here is some order to the chaos:

• rest-driver java, clojure, scala

  A mature and well-used library for making it easy to test RESTful services. The core library is written in Java and there are Scala and Clojure wrappers underway too.

• foosaholics clojure, javascript

  To learn more about the Heroku platform and MongoDb, and to keep track of our table-football scores. Current league.

• aa-maven-plugin clojure

  To teach myself java-interop with Clojure I wrote a maven plugin without using any java at all. This plugin shows ascii-art during your maven build.

• unshred javascript

  Solving an online programming challenge in JavaScript. Although Python or C++ were the recommended languages I decided to try some image-analysis in JS. The challenge was to recreate an image which had been put through a shredder.

• pacman clojurescript

  ClojureScript is a dialect of Clojure which compiles to JavaScript rather than JVM bytecode. After its announcement I was keen to play with it so I decided to build a game.

• doomsday, hawk bash

  I spend a lot of time programming using bash. But due to its nature these are usually 1-off scripts which never make it to github. I've got a couple of good ones though:

  • doomsday allows you to practise the doomsday algorithm, for quickly calculating the day of the week for a given date.
  • hawk watches a directory for changes to files and runs an arbitrary command. Useful for running tests automatically when source files change and similar operations.

• so-leaderboard javascript

  A leaderboard for you to compare yourself and your friends to people like Jon Skeet on StackOverflow. I wrote this with a friend while researching RESTful APIs on the web (SO's is pretty good!) - and practising TDD in JavaScript using Jasmine.

• Protovis Grapher javascript

  Protovis (now called d3) is a Javascript library for plotting graphs and drawing diagrams. It's extremely interesting in its design and while learning it to help write some tools at work I wrote this simple grapher which uses HTML5 localstorage to retains its data too. I also wrote two visual representations of approximations to π: by counting squares, and by counting triangles.

other things