More ANTLR Grammars

I was recently asked to release some of my code to Maven Central, and therefore had to figure out how to do it.  I’ve now released these khubla.com libraries: cBean Pragmatach antlr4test-maven-plugin OLMReader simpleIOC ParadoxReader The maven coordinates for each are documented on the github pages.  

I recently got a call from a friend who has a library of thousands of PDF documents. He wanted to know there was a such thing as a personal search engine that could index his library of documents, and allow full text search inside of them. I have a giant document library too, including PDF…

I recently had a reason to parse a large data set, for another project.  I decided that an ideal “large data set” would be my Outlook mail saved archives.  Sadly, Outlook for Mac doesn’t output PST files, it outputs OLM archives, which are, essentially, giant zip files full of XML.  I was coding this all…

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…

A couple projects I’ve been working on have a need for a REPL style console.  I had written a simple framework for creating REPL’s, which is open-sourced here.  

I recently found myself in a situation where mission-critical software was suffering from performance problems due to relying on a remote API which was both slow (as slow as 11sec / transaction), and unreliable.   In this case, it turned out that there were multiple applications accessing this API, and every individual application was affected….