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Perl module of the day (1)
2010-08-13Control where you go when you die() ... → read more …
xn--bullshit is a valid IDN application
2010-07-06Indeed, it is! Accidentally, while testing some random stuff against my IDN validatior function, I found out that the word bullshit is the result of the Punycode Algorithm applied to the Unicode sequence U+37F0 U+37E6 U+37F3 U+37EE U+37EC U+37E0. → read more …
Is LINQ functional?
2010-03-31With it's 3.5 extensions, the .NET framework started to turn into a really cool looking programming concept, last but not least due to the syntactic sugar of LINQ. A reason for that is surely it's functional look. Well, as LINQ is integrated into an imperative context, it won't be ever able to guarantee state-free evaluation as a genuine functional language does. Nevertheless it's worth to discuss and play around with a few aspects of it in terms of a multiple programming paradigm concept. → read more …
beta blog goes technorati
2010-02-21... now I take pride in the words: beta-blog.net has been finally accepted officially as one one of 112 million weblogs the blogosphere takes note of: → read more …
getting rid of MT's permalink file extensions
2010-02-14While designing scalable and portable web projects, it's always a good idea to design hyperlinks independently of the physical file path from where the respective request should be served then. → read more …
¡La Gomera!
2010-01-09uno de esos lugares en donde se entiende: este planeta es el muy más hermoso del universo. → read more …
AutoSmileys:-) Plugin for Movable Type
2009-12-06Freely configurable automatic raplacement of textual emoticons by image tags. AutoSmileys is an easy to use and highly customizable macro environment for Movable Type. It will replace self-defined text abbreviations by image tags when your site is published or dynamically rendered, respectively. It may be applied either within entries, comments, pages, or any other part of your site. → read more …
a wordlist folding algorithm
2009-11-29Assumed you wish to match a large wordlist against a huge chunk of text. As a small test case, let for, far, bar, foo, boofaz, boofar, boof, faz, foobaz, foobars, boofar be your wordlist. Now, you may apply the according regualar expression: But which way a regex engine would implement the assignment? → read more …
understanding unicode surrogates / or: how to deal with Linear B strings in .NET
2009-11-17Remember a String object in .NET is a collection of Char objects, where a Char object in turn s announced as a unicode character, encoded by a 16bit unsigned integer. Thus, more precisely speaking, a single Char object is able to encode any codepoint within the basic multilingual lane (BMP), i.e. between U+0000 and U+FFFF. So, where goes the rest of the story? Unicode, as an universal character set, is designed to support much more than 65536 characters of ourse. → read more …
Fun with European domain names
2009-11-13Starting 10 December 2009, companies and private persons based in the European Union will be able to register.eu Internationalised Domain Names → read more …
no sleep till DENIC
2009-10-25Donnerstag, 15.10.2009, 16:14 Uhr. Ein unspektakulärer Arbeitstag neigt sich dem Ende zu. Im Posteingang erscheint eine Verlautbarung der DENIC-Mitgliederliste. Von einem BGH-Urteil ist die Rede, von neuen Domainrichtlinien. Da per Gerichtsbeschluss die Registrierung der Domain vw.de angeordnet wurde, sollen auch vergleichbare Domainnamen freigegeben werden, die bisher nicht zugelassen waren: 1- und 2-stellige Domains, Zifferndomains, sowie Toplevel-Domains und deutsche Autokennzeichen. → read more …
