April 2008 archive

FSF Meeting in Boston (Part One)

Much after the fact, here are a few notes about my trip to Boston last month for the Free Software Foundation's 2008 annual associate member meeting. This is part one. Maybe I'll get part two up before another 6 weeks go by.
I like to travel, but I guess mainly with my wife. [...]

Steven Levy = Awesome Writer

Hackers

Many years ago I read Hackers for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it. Levy takes exhaustive research and interviews and weaves them in to a great tale. I like reading about the people behind technology and how they came to do what they do (or did what they did), and this book [...]

Regex Walk-Through: Match filename base and extension

This post is a rather lengthy analysis of a short regular expression:
(.+?)(\.[^.]*$|$)
I'm continuing to enjoy and learn a lot from Jeffrey Friedl's Mastering Regular Expressions. One of the things that works well for me is the way he walks through examples and iteratively builds a more robust pattern for a particular task. It helps to [...]