Monthly Archives: January 2009

“Unicode is not an encoding”

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Josh

A lot of people commented on my last entry with the “Unicode is not an encoding” retort. This is apparently a pedantic point that people love to make to prove that they know more about internationalization of text than you … Continue reading →

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Ruby 1.9.1 released

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Josh

Ruby 1.9.1 was released today. You wouldn’t know it from the version number “1.9.1″ but this is a big deal in the Ruby community. It’s the Python 3000 of Ruby, except it’s an even bigger deal than that because it’s … Continue reading →

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BeOS

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Josh

Things I’d do if I had more time, entry #417: Find out why BeOS R5 doesn’t boot on qemu and fix it. It runs fine if you get it booted (or so Michael Crawford, from the link, claims), it just … Continue reading →

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Gazelle 0.4 released!

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Josh

I’m am very excited to announce the release of Gazelle 0.4! The most notable change in this release is that Gazelle can again handle whitespace. But there are many other changes that put Gazelle well on the path from being … Continue reading →

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C and C++ are CRAZY!

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Josh

I’ve learned a lot of crazy things about C and C++ in the last few years, as far as parsing goes. The one that’s always blown me away the most is that parsing C++ is undecidable: you can’t properly parse … Continue reading →

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