Against entropy.
Allow me to celebrate the JRuby team (and nearby efforts) in that the next patch release of it will include \K as a regular expression special character. This GitHub Issue was just closed with a resolution in the Joni library: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/issues/4871 Its support is in a little select company, randomly listed at StackOverflow, which has …
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This pastie holds my first C patch. It actually repaired a Readline problem that appeared on my Mac when I git pull‘d Io’s source today. See the Io issue at their bugtracker. The pgsql heroes fixed the problem way before, so I could stand on the shoulders of smart giants. I don’t know how to …
A Swede made the first WideFinder implementation in Io: Ragnar Dahlén. The results were informative, but not performant. Io can not compete just there, just yet. Me and Thorbiörn were conspiring last week to implement WideFinder, but we got waylaid by… distractions. The distractions were speculative, lazy, and touched on different OCamls. Like this: “We …
More groups of people who want to fiddle with opensource software: Hackaton.se. They have an event in Malmö, at a school, 23-25 november. Just to let you know, so you can spread the word. I’ll write more when I know more. Update! An attentive reader, also being the organizer of the upcoming event emailed me, …
Folks, I live in Malmö, Sweden. Update: Web Hacking Oresund web page. And I like hanging out, making stuff. So, I set up a Facebook group called “Web Hacking Øresund”. (yeah, yeah, silo-of-content, and all, I’ll go and set up an Upcoming Event for it, instead). The concept: meet up, checking out the stuff you’ve …
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Thorbiorn has started the practical parts of his amazing programming language project called Project Polyglot. Read more at Thorbiorn’s now-actually-a-little-active weblog. “The ball is rolling.” [tags]programming,programminglanguages,projectpolyglot[/tags]
The Io blog points to a ramshackle example Io thing authored by me and quag. If you’ve heard about Io, and wonder what it looks like, this is a… very small example. (I didn’t know they’d gone and published it, and it turned up in my newsreader. Now I have to improve it. Gosh, the …
Copy-party (or less aggressively, and perhaps more descriptively “demo-party”), that was the name of a weekend of mildly Dionysian digital festival here in Northern Europe during the late 80s and the 90s. *Update:* Danish radio DR1’s show Harddisken has Frederik Berg Olsen’s radio programme about NGJ07. FBO had a tape recorder with him, and made …
Via Dave, my favorite Dutch-speaking Australian Computer Scientist, I got wind of this fine J programming language introduction, written by our common acquaintance Cratylus. A short text, it goes directly into parsing how J looks, and then a bit about its operators. No speculation, just explanation. Thanks, C! And, Dave: I love the new handle-bars. …
From the PuneRuby forum for learning Ruby: Programmig is Art, Programmer is Artist. Code is Immortal!