Embedding Jasper

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….

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.  

I’ve always had a fascination with compilers.  As a Java geek, I’m also quite interested in the JVM.  In order to learn a little more about both, and as a way to contribute to the open source world, I decided to implement a compiler for BASIC.   So, jvmBasic consumes BASIC code and emits .class…

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…

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…