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Dermot Hogan looks at what’s required to build your very own computer language using two new – and remarkable – tools. Microsoft’s Dynamic Language Runtime and ANTLR3 by Terrence Parr from the University of San Francisco.
Monday 18 August 2008
by Dermot Hogan
It’s a been a couple of months since I last looked at the DLR and ANTLR3 – somewhat longer than I’d anticipated. There are two reasons really – one is that I’ve been busy (ok – that’s not a reason, it’s an excuse: the dog ate my homework, Miss). The other is that both ANTLR and the DLR have been evolving and, with the DLR, at a rapid rate.
Book Review
Thursday 14 August 2008
by Huw Collingbourne
Protect Your Privacy
Saturday 9 August 2008
by Huw Collingbourne
Howard Fosdick has just released the latest version of his excellent eBook, ‘How to Secure Your Windows Computer and Protect Your Privacy — with Free Software’.
How can you save and load different form layouts while a Delphi application is running? Huw Collingbourne didn’t know either. But he eventually figured it out…
Thursday 7 August 2008
by Huw Collingbourne
Following a couple of years of uncertainly, the venerable Delphi Pascal-based visual programming language/environment has finally found a new home. While Delphi may not have quite such a high profile in the development community as it once had, there is no doubting that it is still a powerful tool. In this article, I’ll explain how you can use Delphi For Win32 to create on-the-fly customizable user interfaces...
The Delphi 2007 IDE
Book Review
Wednesday 23 July 2008
by Huw Collingbourne
Modularity and Objects
Tuesday 22 July 2008
by Huw Collingbourne
I’ve just posted an article about some of the mysteries of encapsulation and why this means different things to different people.
Book Review
Friday 18 July 2008
by Huw Collingbourne
part one
Wednesday 2 July 2008
by Huw Collingbourne
Over the past few years I’ve been so involved with the Ruby language that I’ve been guilty of ignoring an important alternative, Python. The two languages have much in common - they are both dynamic, object oriented languages with a simple syntax far removed from the ‘curly-bracket’ C-like languages which are so dominant. In this new series, I plan to explore the basics of the Python language. If you are interested, you may want to follow my progress...
Book Review
Tuesday 17 June 2008
by Huw Collingbourne
$74.95 / £39.95
By Matthew Strawbridge
Pages: 628
Software Reference Ltd: http://www.swref.com
ISBN: 978 0 9554614 1 5
Book Review
Thursday 12 June 2008
by Huw Collingbourne
$29.99 / £18.50
By Harold Davis
Pages: 176
O’Reilly http://www.oreilly.com
ISBN 10: 0-596-52988-0 | ISBN 13: 9780596529888
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