Gadgetopia

The Regex Coach - interactive regular expressions: This thing is a dream come true. "The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Linux and Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively."

Introducing BunnyRegex: easy regular expressions, and mini-languages inside of PHP: Here's a great little regex library for PHP that uses a dead-simple syntax that someone should have thought of way, way before this. include("BunnyRegex.php"); $pattern = new BunnyRegex(); $pattern->bol() // ^ ->digit() // \d ->exactly(4) // {4} ->string('/') // / ...

As I become a more experienced developer, I'm learning when you should and shouldn't break the rules. While following every rule of programming and data modeling is wonderful, sometimes you need to bend the rules for the sake of simplicity and expediency. Always remember, an app in the hand is ...

Transform HTML with Regular Expressions: If you don't know what regular expressions are or why you would need to use them, read this. It's a good introduction to regex, grounded with examples of transforming HTML.

PowerGREP: Windows grep Software: I know that search and replace tools aren't anything new, but PowerGrep is far and away the best one I've ever seen for Windows. PowerGREP is a powerful grep tool for quickly searching through large numbers of text and binary files, such as software source code, ...

The War on Terror, as viewed from the Bourne shell.: The war on terror, depicted as a Unix command line. $ cd /middle_east $ ls Afghanistan Iraq Libya Saudi_Arabia UAE Algeria Israel Morrocco Sudan Yemen Bahrain Jordan Oman Syria Egypt Kuwait Palestine Tunisia Iran Lebanon Qatar Turkey $ cd Afghanistan ...

I'm doing a project with Ektron CMS400.Net right now, and that system relies pretty heavily on XSL, which I hate. I really think XSL is a tool of devil, meant just to drive me mad. But I digress. I needed a good little XSL authoring app. XMLSpy is the absolute ...

How DO You Serve Two Masters?: Dean Peters over at Heal Your Church Web Site is on vacation. so he asked a bunch of us to guest-write for this week. My day was today. I hope I didn't suck. [...] church Web sites have an interesting challenge in front of ...

My company just bought Small Business Server 2003, and a copy of FrontPage 2003 was included, so I've been playing around with it for the last week. Overall, a huge improvement over previous versions of FrontPage (it no longer messes with your stuff...). It includes something that DreamWeaver has had ...

EditPlus Text Editor, HTML Editor, Programmers Editor for Windows - Welcome!: A while back, Cory Doctorow had a little love-in for BBEdit, apparently the greatest text editor for Macs ever made. Well, after mentioning it a number of times over the years, it's time I did the same for the ...

What do you do with sites that need a single table of data updated? These are sites which are totally static, except for this one thing... For instance, we have a client for which we built a static site. But they have a page which lists all the locations where ...

I've been toying with an idea lately, and instead of actually doing it (don't have the time), I'm going to throw it out here for fun. My idea is for an extremely simplistic content management system -- one based on HTML files and a scheduled file system crawl. First, some ...