More ANTLR Grammars

I’ve been interested in RIAK for a while, and ORM’s are nothing short of fascinating. I decided to try writing an ORM for Riak, and the results are here: https://github.com/teverett/cbean My ORM is not an ORM of course, because RIAK is not relational. However it is ORM-like; I can store POJO’s and retrieve them. The…

Back in the day, Paradox was a pretty amazing database.  I recently had a reason to read some Paradox files for a friend, who had a client with a Paradox database.  They needed their data out of the database to insert into something more modern. Googling for the file format of a Paradox DB didn’t…

I’ve tried a couple different mp3 taggers to tag my mp3 library, however, most seem to have trouble with large mp3 libraries.  So, after doing some reading about AcoustID and MusicBrainz I decided to quickly code up my own tagger, MusicBrainzTagger. MusicBrainzTagger is a command-line application which recurses a directory of mp3 files and tags…

If you haven’t read this book, I highly recommend it.  I discovered it in high school and finally purchased my first copy at the now-gone Duthie Books in Kitsilano.  Without going into the details of the book, the author uses a simple Peano arithmetic called Typographical Number Theory  (TNT) to illustrate some of his points. An example…

I’ve been interested in HTML parsing for a while now.  There are a number of reasons to do this, such as: Validating that what claims to be HTML, is HTML Finding every style sheet and script in an HTML file Pretty-printing Syntax highlighting Linting Translating between markup languages, for example generating JSPs from PHP, or…

When building database ORM code, I prefer to use ebean, and I prefer to use DAO‘s. Since DAO’s are simple to make generic, I have a Generic DAO I use for all projects. I’ve finally decided to open-source my DAO code, and you can find it here https://github.com/teverett/ebean-dao.