Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. —Piet Hein

Thursday 13 September 2007

Ohloh's Visualizations

Ohloh seems to be positioning itself as the social networking site of the open source project world. It's also worth having a look at for its neat visualizations. I particularly like the sparklines showing commit activity for each committer on a project, the codebase history showing the number of lines of code over time, and the ability to compare projects graphically (a bit like Google Trends). These tools are great for getting a quick feel for a project that you can't really find from its website or source code repository.

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