Netizens: Crispin & Gregory's new book, /Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams/, has a kewt "mind map" at the start of each chapter. It inspired me to find a way to use the "tag cloud" on a blog to draw a mind map of the posts, linked by their tags in common.
The result is this little project: http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/02/merb-mind-maps.html It showcases... - graph theory - including Minimum Spanning Tree - GraphViz - to typeset the mind maps - Merb - a Rails-style website platform - Ruby - that annoying language that won't go away - RSpec - a Behavior Driven Development system - transparent PNG files with ImageMagick drop-shadows - assert{ 2.0 } - an assertion that reflects its expressions - assert{ xpath } - the latest version of my assert_xpath system - TDD for algorithms & graph theory! - fixture-dependencies - a Rails fixture clone with more features - GraphvizR - a lite Ruby gem that wraps GraphViz dot notation - and even a tiny bit of HAML! The algorithm itself depends on none of those things, so any blog could use the algorithm to present the mind-maps that are already latent within it! -- Phlip http://flea.sourceforge.net/PiglegToo_1.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
