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Now I’m a proud open source geek :)

My libnotify patch to hellanzb was incorporated into the 0.12 release.

Yesterday I saw that Debian unstable bumped the hellanzb package to last version 0.13, including for the first time my code on hellanzb :D I cannot believe Ubuntu is still lagging on this.

Anyway, it is a very good felling to thing that my code is now replicated over dozens of mirrors of free software around the world.

Really, I do love opensource. You should try it too :)

Tags debian python

As part of my investigation work on PHP, I needed a preprocessor capable of extracting all the PHP from a PHP file, discarding all HTML it encounters.

Initially I thought it would be a hard job, but latter found that AntLR3 makes this job really easy!

I wrote something like this:

lexer grammar FuzzyPHP;

options { filter=true; }

PHP : ‘‘ { System.out.println(getText()); };

This happens to work really good :) Now I can continue my PHP parser…

*: Of course my code doesn’t work when you have strings like '?>'. Here’s a new version that should work :)

PHP : ‘SINGLE_QUOTED_STRING | DOUBLE_QUOTED_STRING)) ’?>’ { out.println(getText()); };

SINGLE_QUOTED_STRING : ’\’’ (’\\\\’ | ’\\\’’ | ~(’\’‘))* ’\’’ ;

DOUBLE_QUOTED_STRING : ’”’ (’\\\\’ | ’\\”’ | ~(’”’)) * ’”’ ;

Tags java php

Today I made a presentation about Makefile::Parallel on the Braga.pm fifth tech meeting. I used the same slides from previous presentations :P

TODO: Someday I will need to look at the TODO file... NOTTTTTT!

Slides attached :)

Try this on your Linux box!

sudo perl -MAudio::Beep -e 'beep(21 + 9998, 3000) while 1'

Pretty annoying huh? :D

Now for something completely different:

use Audio::Beep;

my $beeper = Audio::Beep->new();
my $music = "g' f bes' c8 f d4 c8 f d4 bes c g f2";
$beeper->play( $music );

Audio::Beep is really a great Perl module! :)

Tags perl

Since the article about Makefile::Parallel was accepted at EuroPar, I never touched the software again.

Fortunately, it is been working since then without too many problems. However, there are a bunch of new features that we thought we could include in the distribution. So lately I have been spending some time doing small hackathons adding the features and correcting some bugs.

You can expect a new release on CPAN very soon :-)

Tags perl