Nifty Things for Week Ending 31 January 2016

I realized I’d missed doing this, so… here we go again 😉

Tools

• ggreer/the_silver_searcher: A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
• monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher: A code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.
• junegunn/fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go
• Lightworks: The professional editor for everyone
• Tabula: Extract Tables from PDFs
• gollum/gollum – JavaScript

Frameworks

• Middleman: Hand-crafted frontend development
• middleman/middleman – Ruby

Code

• Introducing Gizmo – The New York Times
• NYTimes/gizmo: A Microservice Toolkit from The New York Times
• Sarah Happy: shell script state machine

Learning

• RebelLabs Java 8 cheat sheet

Algorithms

• Boyer–Moore string search algorithm
• Deterministic acyclic finite state automaton

Data

• Intro to Daru – Data Analysis in Ruby
• On DataFrame datatype in Ruby
• SciRuby/iruby
• paulgoetze/weka-jruby: Machine Learning & Data Mining with JRuby
• tabulapdf/tabula-extractor – Ruby
• Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain
• Guesstimate

Nifty Things

• Can You Match the Country to what it used to be called?