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Submission + - 10,000 commits to an open-source project (twitter.com)

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tgeller

on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @01:49PM

tgeller writes: "British web designer Jonathan Brown tweeted that Drupal creator Dries Buytaert has surpassed 10,000 commits to the open-source content-management system he created ten years ago, Drupal. In a private email, Dries said "I'm mostly committing other people's patches: Credit really goes to the community at large". Still, it's rare for individual to log that many commits. Can anyone claim more?"

Submission + - Drupal "unofficially competes" as framework (benbuckman.net)

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tgeller

on Thursday February 24, 2011 @04:57PM

tgeller writes: "Drupal developer Ben Buckman attended the BostonPHP Framework Bake-Off with the hopes of pitting the CMS against CakePHP, Symfony, Zend, and CodeIgniter. He was told that he couldn't because Drupal is "not a framework", a response he felt was "coder-purist snobbery ('it's not a framework if you build any of it in a UI')".

So he decided to unofficially compete in the back of the room by accepting the challenge of building job-posting app in 30 minutes, while the official competitors did the same from the stage. He recorded the results, which are impressive. In the process he raised the question: What *is* a framework, anyway?"

Submission + - Checkers solved, unbeatable database created (nature.com)

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tgeller

on Thursday July 19, 2007 @03:32PM

tgeller writes: "My story in Nature announced that a team of computer scientists at the University of Alberta has solved checkers. From the game's 500 billion billion positions (5 * 10^20), "Chinook" has determined which 100,000 billion (10^14) are needed for their proof, and run through all relevant decision trees. They've set up a site where you can see the proof, traverse the logic, and play their unbeatable automaton. Congratulations to Dr. Schaeffer and his crew!"

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