Wie immer, wenn etwas immer größer und komplizierter wird, zeichnet sich ein Trend zur Lokalisierung ab. Das Internet ist ein topologischer Raum, der so hochdimensional geworden ist, dass man ihn nur noch als Überdeckung eines unfassbaren Etwas durch lokale Landkarten erklären kann. Das Kraftwerk der Globalisierung sehnt sich heute nach Semantik, sucht soziale Kontakte und organische Strukturen.Es möchte den Menschen nahe sein, ihre Gegend kennen und ihren Dialekt sprechen.  → read more …

Lately, while snooping around within old coding stuff, I rediscovered an ancient treasure: the PostScript programming language. It's older than dirt and situated deep down under the bottom of Adobe's PDF technology. Intended to be an efficient and highly flexible printer instruction language, it's actually a Turing-complete programming language, based on a very clear and suprisingly simple stack-oriented concept, outputting geometric results to suitable devices.  → read more …

Control where you go when you die() ...  → read more …

Indeed, 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 …

With 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 …

... 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 …

While 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 …

uno de esos lugares en donde se entiende: este planeta es el muy más hermoso del universo.  → read more …

Freely 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 …

Assumed 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 …