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…

I recently had a chance to learn a little about Bioinformatics, and ended up browsing the NIH’s database of genomes here.  Inside the genome data for any particular strain of a species, you’ll find various files with file extensions like “ffa”, “fna”, “ffn” and “frn”.  These are FASTA files. If you’d like an example, here’s…

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…

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