Parser Combinators: How to Parse (nearly) Anything
Nate Young presents parser combinators, what they are useful for and how to make use of them, demoing how to write one.
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Apache Tika 1.0 Allows Easy Text Extraction for Java
InfoQ interviewed Chris Mattman from Apache Tika, a text extraction and detection library, in the occasion of the 1.0 release and the publication of the "Tika in Action" book.
Writing New .NET Languages with Irony
Irony is a framework created by Roman Ivantsov and used to write internal DSLs or entire new languages that run on .NET, the grammar being written in C#.
DRYer CSS with LESS or Sass
LESS and Sass are Ruby tools that allow to reduce redundancy in CSS files by introducing variables, mixins, and other time proven language features into CSS. We take a look at how the two tools work and what they offer.
JRuby Roundup: RCov Port Available, Ribs For Hibernate Support, Parser Stats
A port of the popular code coverage tool rcov is now available for JRuby. Ola Bini started a Hibernate-based library for persisting Ruby objects named Ribs. And finally, JRuby trunk contains a new MBean for analysing parse times.
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Creating DSLs in Java
Venkat Subramaniam explains what DSLs are good for, then he demos the creation of a DSL in Java, starting with a grammar and a parser, with an emphasis on useful patterns to be used along the way.
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Dan Ingalls on the History of Smalltalk and the Lively Kernel
Dan Ingalls explains the ideas that went into Smalltalk, how it was developed at Xerox PARC, the ideas that went into Squeak, and his latest project the browser-based Lively Kernel.
Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript
Avi Bryant talks about the iterative process that led to Trendly (http://trendly.com/ ), using Javascript, Ruby and Java in the process. He goes on to give his view on the state of Smalltalk and Squeak and talks about his experiments with writing a Smalltalk that compiles to idiomatic Javascript to make use of all the modern Javascript VMs.