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Created February 22, 2010 15:07
macruby script that get the current browsing web url from safari
# macruby script that get the current browsing web url from safari
apple_script = <<-APPLESCRIPT
tell application "Safari"
set a to URL of front document as string
return a
end tell
APPLESCRIPT
script = NSAppleScript.alloc.initWithSource(apple_script)
result = script.executeAndReturnError(nil)
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rociiu / MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown
Created February 22, 2010 07:10 — forked from nkallen/MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown

2010 Modularity Olympics

This is a contest, open to programming languages from all nations, to write modular and extensible code to solve the following problem: Implement a service that can run queries on a database.

The Challenge

Sounds simple right? Wrong! A programmer without control over the source-code of that service must be able to later add enhancements such as statistics collecting, timeouts, memoization, and so forth. There are a few more requirements:

  1. the “enhancements” must be specified in a configuration object which is consumed at run-time (e.g., it could be based on user-input).
  2. The enhancements are ordered (stats collecting wraps timeouts, not the other way around) but it must be possible to reverse the order of the enhancements at run-time.
  3. The enhancements must be “surgical” and not “global”. That is, it must be possible to simultaneously have two query services, one reversed and one not reversed, and even have a query service without any enhancements.
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rociiu / MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown
Created February 22, 2010 01:02 — forked from nkallen/MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown

2010 Modularity Olympics

This is a contest, open to programming languages from all nations, to write modular and extensible code to solve the following problem: Implement a service that can run queries on a database.

The Challenge

Sounds simple right? Wrong! A programmer without control over the source-code of that service must be able to later add enhancements such as statistics collecting, timeouts, memoization, and so forth. There are a few more requirements:

  1. the “enhancements” must be specified in a configuration object which is consumed at run-time (e.g., it could be based on user-input).
  2. The enhancements are ordered (stats collecting wraps timeouts, not the other way around) but it must be possible to reverse the order of the enhancements at run-time.
  3. The enhancements must be “surgical” and not “global”. That is, it must be possible to simultaneously have two query services, one reversed and one not reversed, and even have a query service without any enhancements.
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rociiu / MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown
Created February 21, 2010 14:41 — forked from nkallen/MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown

2010 Modularity Olympics

This is a contest, open to programming languages from all nations, to write modular and extensible code to solve the following problem: Implement a service that can run queries on a database.

The Challenge

Sounds simple right? Wrong! A programmer without control over the source-code of that service must be able to later add enhancements such as statistics collecting, timeouts, memoization, and so forth. There are a few more requirements:

  1. the “enhancements” must be specified in a configuration object which is consumed at run-time (e.g., it could be based on user-input).
  2. The enhancements are ordered (stats collecting wraps timeouts, not the other way around) but it must be possible to reverse the order of the enhancements at run-time.
  3. The enhancements must be “surgical” and not “global”. That is, it must be possible to simultaneously have two query services, one reversed and one not reversed, and even have a query service without any enhancements.
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rociiu / MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown
Created February 21, 2010 11:24 — forked from nkallen/MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown

2010 Modularity Olympics

This is a contest, open to programming languages from all nations, to write modular and extensible code to solve the following problem: Implement a service that can run queries on a database.

The Challenge

Sounds simple right? Wrong! A programmer without control over the source-code of that service must be able to later add enhancements such as statistics collecting, timeouts, memoization, and so forth. There are a few more requirements:

  1. the “enhancements” must be specified in a configuration object which is consumed at run-time (e.g., it could be based on user-input).
  2. The enhancements are ordered (stats collecting wraps timeouts, not the other way around) but it must be possible to reverse the order of the enhancements at run-time.
  3. The enhancements must be “surgical” and not “global”. That is, it must be possible to simultaneously have two query services, one reversed and one not reversed, and even have a query service without any enhancements.
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rociiu / MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown
Created February 21, 2010 11:23 — forked from nkallen/MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown

2010 Modularity Olympics

This is a contest, open to programming languages from all nations, to write modular and extensible code to solve the following problem: Implement a service that can run queries on a database.

The Challenge

Sounds simple right? Wrong! A programmer without control over the source-code of that service must be able to later add enhancements such as statistics collecting, timeouts, memoization, and so forth. There are a few more requirements:

  1. the “enhancements” must be specified in a configuration object which is consumed at run-time (e.g., it could be based on user-input).
  2. The enhancements are ordered (stats collecting wraps timeouts, not the other way around) but it must be possible to reverse the order of the enhancements at run-time.
  3. The enhancements must be “surgical” and not “global”. That is, it must be possible to simultaneously have two query services, one reversed and one not reversed, and even have a query service without any enhancements.
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rociiu / MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown
Created February 21, 2010 01:01 — forked from nkallen/MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown

2010 Modularity Olympics

This is a contest, open to programming languages from all nations, to write modular and extensible code to solve the following problem: Implement a service that can run queries on a database.

The Challenge

Sounds simple right? Wrong! A programmer without control over the source-code of that service must be able to later add enhancements such as statistics collecting, timeouts, memoization, and so forth. There are a few more requirements:

  1. the “enhancements” must be specified in a configuration object which is consumed at run-time (e.g., it could be based on user-input).
  2. The enhancements are ordered (stats collecting wraps timeouts, not the other way around) but it must be possible to reverse the order of the enhancements at run-time.
  3. The enhancements must be “surgical” and not “global”. That is, it must be possible to simultaneously have two query services, one reversed and one not reversed, and even have a query service without any enhancements.
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rociiu / MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown
Created February 20, 2010 14:35 — forked from nkallen/MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown

2010 Modularity Olympics

This is a contest, open to programming languages from all nations, to write modular and extensible code to solve the following problem: Implement a service that can run queries on a database.

The Challenge

Sounds simple right? Wrong! A programmer without control over the source-code of that service must be able to later add enhancements such as statistics collecting, timeouts, memoization, and so forth. There are a few more requirements:

  1. the “enhancements” must be specified in a configuration object which is consumed at run-time (e.g., it could be based on user-input).
  2. The enhancements are ordered (stats collecting wraps timeouts, not the other way around) but it must be possible to reverse the order of the enhancements at run-time.
  3. The enhancements must be “surgical” and not “global”. That is, it must be possible to simultaneously have two query services, one reversed and one not reversed, and even have a query service without any enhancements.
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rociiu / MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown
Created February 19, 2010 04:54 — forked from nkallen/MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown

2010 Modularity Olympics

This is a contest, open to programming languages from all nations, to write modular and extensible code to solve the following problem: Implement a service that can run queries on a database.

The Challenge

Sounds simple right? Wrong! A programmer without control over the source-code of that service must be able to later add enhancements such as statistics collecting, timeouts, memoization, and so forth. There are a few more requirements:

  1. the “enhancements” must be specified in a configuration object which is consumed at run-time (e.g., it could be based on user-input).
  2. The enhancements are ordered (stats collecting wraps timeouts, not the other way around) but it must be possible to reverse the order of the enhancements at run-time.
  3. The enhancements must be “surgical” and not “global”. That is, it must be possible to simultaneously have two query services, one reversed and one not reversed, and even have a query service without any enhancements.
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rociiu / MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown
Created February 19, 2010 00:51 — forked from nkallen/MODULARITY_OLYMPICS.markdown

2010 Modularity Olympics

This is a contest, open to programming languages from all nations, to write modular and extensible code to solve the following problem: Implement a service that can run queries on a database.

The Challenge

Sounds simple right? Wrong! A programmer without control over the source-code of that service must be able to later add enhancements such as statistics collecting, timeouts, memoization, and so forth. There are a few more requirements:

  1. the “enhancements” must be specified in a configuration object which is consumed at run-time (e.g., it could be based on user-input).
  2. The enhancements are ordered (stats collecting wraps timeouts, not the other way around) but it must be possible to reverse the order of the enhancements at run-time.
  3. The enhancements must be “surgical” and not “global”. That is, it must be possible to simultaneously have two query services, one reversed and one not reversed, and even have a query service without any enhancements.