GODI – The source code Objective Caml distribution

Via its homepage:

GODI provides an advanced programming environment for the Objective Caml (O’Caml) language.
From INRIA (who created O’Caml) you can get the O’Caml compiler and runtime system, but this is usually not enough to develop applications. You also need libraries, and there are many developers all over the world providing them; you can go and pick them up. But it is a lot of work to build and install them.
GODI is a system that simplifies this task: It is a framework that automatically builds the O’Caml core system, and additionally installs a growing number of pre-packaged libraries. For a number of reasons GODI is a source-code based system, and there are no precompiled libraries, but it makes it very simple for everybody to compile them.
GODI is available for O’Caml-3.10 and 3.11. It runs on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Windows (Cygwin and MinGW), HP-UX, MacOS X.

Condorcet method

The R7RS working group is using this approach, which got me curious about it.

A Condorcet method is any single-winner election method that meets the Condorcet criterion, that is, which always selects the Condorcet winner, the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election, if such a candidate exists.

In other words:

It is possible for a candidate to be the most preferred overall without being the first preference of any voter. In a sense, the Condorcet method yields the “best compromise” candidate, the one that the largest majority will find to be least disagreeable, even if not their favorite.

(via wikipedia)

Scribfile: File and Operating System related Scribble Functionality

http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/grettke/scribfile.plt/1/0/planet-docs/scribfile/index.html
Is a little library that provides two forms, one to read a lispy language file into a codeblock and another that makes a system call and renders the results in a verbatim form. Pretty helpful for demos of non-Racket code and who knows what else.
Thanks Racket team, and Danny and Matthew for getting this working.

Angular Unstable will be in Bower Soon

Tried to install AngularJS unstable today via bower and followed this trail:

to find that Bower currently doesn’t support unstable releases due to a versioning issue, but, they will soon.
In the meantime, Michael Ahlers went above and beyond to provide an alternative here.