Mark Lentczner's JournalA motley collection of thoughtsParsing, Programming and Protocols- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Someone on the Antlr mailing list was trying to parse IMAP responses with a grammar. During that discussion, this insight on programming languages vs. protocols occurred to me: Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2004/05/11#ParseProgProto Periodic Table of the Operators- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Awhile back, I saw Larry Wall give a short talk about the current design of Perl 6. At some point he put up a list of all the operators - well over a hundred of them! I had a sudden inspiration, but it took a few months to get around to drawing it... Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2004/05/28#PeriodicTable Software Patents are Broken- (Found July 8, 2008 ) If there has ever been evidence that software patents, at least as practiced in the United States, are broken, this is it: Today, the US Patent Office published Microsoft's patent application 0040181571: Reducing unwanted and unsolicited electronic messages by preventing connection hijacking and domain spoofing Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2004/09/16#Software_Patents Not Just Me- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Guess I'm not the only one who thinks that software patents are broken and harmful to innovation. Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2004/09/28#Not_Just_Me Reverse VNC for Mac OS X- (Found July 8, 2008 ) I've implemented the "reverse connect" features for the Mac OS X VNC server and client programs. If you don't know what VNC is, go read about it here, then come back here if you use Mac OS X. Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2004/10/29#Reverse_VNC Holiday Baking Round Up- (Found July 8, 2008 ) We baked a whole lot this holiday season. Here's what we made: Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2005/01/02#Holiday_Baking Context Free- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Context Free 1.0 is out! Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2005/05/25#Context_Free |