“Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just require “http://my-host/my-lib.rb” in ruby?
Now You Can! Using our “http_​require” gem!”

““Just yes­ter­day, some­body asked me about my last temp job,” Brax­ton said. “It ended in May, but I told them it ended in June. See, after it ended, I took about a month off and just kind of dicked around, trav­el­ing around Europe until my money ran out. I knew not to men­tion that to peo­ple who won’t be able to do any­thing like that until they’re 65.””

“This paper has two aspects. First, it describes the use of genetic pro­gram­ming to auto­mat­i­cally syn­the­size a solu­tion to the chal­lenge prob­lem posed at an inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tion held every four years in the field of opti­cal design. In 2002, the com­pe­ti­tion at the Inter­na­tional Opti­cal Design Con­fer­ence attracted 42 entries from 39 well-​​known opti­cal design­ers, com­mer­cial con­sul­tants, and patent hold­ers from many of the field’s most promi­nent com­pa­nies, uni­ver­si­ties, and research insti­tu­tions. The 39 human con­tes­tants spent an aver­age of 34.1 hours work­ing on their entries. Vir­tu­ally all entries were con­sid­ered good solu­tions to the chal­lenge prob­lem. Genetic pro­gram­ming auto­mat­i­cally syn­the­sized a design “from scratch” — that is, with­out start­ing from a pre-​​existing human-​​created design and with­out pre-​​specifying the num­ber of lenses, the phys­i­cal lay­out of the lenses, or the numer­i­cal or non-​​numerical para­me­ters of the lenses.…”

KOJAC is a set of Java classes imple­ment­ing opti­cal ele­ments and optics laws in order to build and sim­u­late opti­cal sys­tems. KOJAC is also aimed at being a demon­stra­tor of optics for edu­ca­tional pur­poses. It has been devel­oped at the IMT by Olivier Scher­ler dur­ing a train­ing period.

“Cre­ate an image manip­u­la­tion class that uses Core Image
Inte­grate this new class into attachment_​fu, by writ­ing a new attachment_​fu proces­sor mod­ule
Option­ally, update attachment_fu’s auto­matic image pro­cess­ing list, or rely on using the :proces­sor direc­tive in our has_​attachment model definitions.”