AntlrI4DE is an Eclipse plugin for editing Antlr4 grammars. One of the features I used to really like in the original Antlr IDE was the ability to generate railroad diagrams. It turns out that Antlr4IDE has this feature, so I decided to give it a try. My jvmBasic grammar is here, and you can take a look at the railroad diagram here.
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’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…
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’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…
A complete list of my ANTLR grammars HTML Redcode gff3 6502 Assembler fasta BASIC Creole Logo brainfuck
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.