Author: johayek
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came across something “better than grep”: “ack”
Its home page. Gábor Szabó used it, when he showed me Padre.
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Parrot, the virtual machine
I am rather astonished: Parrot has a rather lengthy list of existing client languages in its Wikipedia article, and there is an even longer one on Parrot.org. I wonder, how lively they really are.
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Ragel State Machine Compiler
Ragel compiles executable finite state machines from regular languages. Ragel targets C, C++, Objective-C, D, Java and Ruby. […]
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Screen Capture in Snow Leopard
Helpful article!! To take a screen capture press Cmd+Shift+4 on your Snow Leopard. […]
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ELPA = Emacs Lisp Package Archive
This article describes how to install the installer. […] Once you have installed the package manager, type M-x package-list-packages. Type r in the package menu buffer to update the list of packages available from the server. If you want a particular package, type i next to its name to mark it for installation, and then x…
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“A weblog client for emacs”
weblogger.el implements Blogger, MetaWeblog and (hopefully soon) the Atom API weblogging APIs.
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TextMate style “snippets” for Emacs
An article talking about YASnippet. So maybe after having learnt, how powerful TextMate is, I will reconvert back to Emacs, using YASnippet “of course”. A few words on snippets …
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copying from from OS X to a Samba server fails, using Cyberduck instead
The operation can’t be completed, because you don’t have permission to access some of the items. Did you come across that error message before? I did, more than once. Today I started using Cyberduck to copy over to the other side, but now as SFTP server. That’s almost as nice, at least it looks like…
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more on web harvesting
Data Extraction for Web 2.0: Screen Scraping in Ruby/Rails, Episode 1 http://scrubyt.org (ruby) HPricot.com : “a swift, liberal HTML parser with a fantastic library” (ruby) http://brightplanet.com : “Pioneers in Harvesting the Deep Web” … Update 2010-06-05/06: One night later I am still very impressed by scrubyt, and I rather want to try it on a…