I needed a lexer that outputs C# code, so I did a quick google search. Cool, a co-worker of mine wrote one. It works great. I needed to make the lexer recursively call itself to do some hierarchical parsing, but it was easy since all of the rules are executed as C# code. Even cooler, […]
As the “once high-flying new economy darlings” are hauled before Congress for “probes”, we’ll probably get to see how well CNN does at reporting on its own parent company, AOL. Business Week says that“In the last year, AOL Time Warner has lowered its earnings guidance three times, reported decelerating growth at the flagship Internet unit, […]
What an incredible industry. On the one hand, the debate over REST continues to rage, with the priests of RESTianity still trying to get the whole world to expose every bit of data as globally accessible URLs. On the other hand, debate rages over the legality of “Deep Linking”, with some truly clueless people trying […]
Tons of buzz about e-books. I posted awhile back about my belief that e-books are stalling because of lack of publisher protections. Washington Post, on the other hand, suggests that e-books stalled specifically because vendors spent too much time trying to make publishers happy. The Shifted Librarian figures that e-books are not really a replacementfor […]
Mitch continues the discussionof TCPA. He’s pushing back pretty hard on my last comments, in which Iopined that there is nothing wrong with being skeptical, but that some people are too paranoid– to the point of being unproductive. He seems to think I was saying that only journalists are permitted to be skeptical, and spends […]