More ANTLR Grammars

I’ve recently becoming interested in porting legacy PHP sites to JSPs.   It seemed to me that one of the hardest parts of this problem was parsing the PHP code.  Once a parse tree was created, the next step would be to emit equivalent JSP code. I went looking for an ANTL4 grammar for PHP,…

I’ve recently been quite interested in Graph languages, not for Graph Databases, but for representing information, in code that is essentially “things” and “relationships”. For example, one perspective on Organizations is that they are simply representable as people, systems and the information that flows between them. Those three building blocks are, in theory, enough to…

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 recently had a reason to need a TELNET server and couldn’t find a Java library that worked for me.  After a weekend of hacking, I now have kTelnet, an Open-source, BSD-licensed, TELNET server.  

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…

Pragmatach version 1.38 has been released Here are the notable changes: Numerous bugs that were identified by Findbugs have been resolved. Upgraded from Antlr3 to Antlr4 Upgraded to scannotation 1.03 Added url_for API to make generation of urls in templates simpler