Software engineering and me
I've been programming, one way and another, since I was about eleven years old. I taught myself a lot, and...
Archive for Programming
jQuery basics
I'm finally starting to teach myself how to use the jQuery JavaScript library. So I'm looking at some of the...
Nifty new hypertext/Interactive Fiction authoring system
I recently encountered a cool system called Undum for creating hypertext stories, semi-interactive text-based games, and Interactive Fiction. On the...
Double your indentation with regular expressions!
Say you have a code sample where each level of indentation is indented by only one space more than the...
Using the W3C’s Web IDL checker
If you're not interested in parsing Web IDL (or if you don't know what that means), this entry will probably not be relevant to you.
Today’s Google features
As usual this time of year, there are a whole bunch of nifty new features and other changes in various...
How to send email with an attachment in Perl
I've been beating my head against this all day, but I think I've finally figured it out. I gather that...
AppleScript autoresponder in Snow Leopard’s Mail.app
Last year, I tried to create an autoresponder for Apple's Mail.app, but ran into problems. Now, in Snow Leopard, I've...
Infernokrusher programming language
Last fall, I happened across a piece I wrote in 1995 about a programming language to be called "C!!!" (pronounced...
How to annoy yourself
I just looked at the submission-processing code for SH, where I found the following comment: # I was going to...
The Big Rewrite
Some months back, Chad Fowler wrote a series of brief posts about "The Big Rewrite"--the fateful decision that many software...
Smarter spellcheckers
There are a lot of typos that spellcheckers won't catch. Some of those, there's probably nothing to be done about...