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An LOLCODE interpreter using JJTree

over 4 years ago by tomcopeland on Junior developer.
Here's something that's lingered in my blog TODO queue for far too long. Brian Egge, formerly of ThoughtWorks and now of Macquarie Bank Limited, wrote an...

Tracking down a Rails app memory leak

over 4 years ago by tomcopeland on Junior developer.
Recently on thenewsroom we've noticed a memory leak; the process size would just grow and grow up over 1 GB per Mongrel. Restarting them regularly kept...

20000 users on RubyForge

over 4 years ago by tomcopeland on Junior developer.
Looks like RubyForge just went up over the 20K user accounts mark; now it's at 20,188. Some of these accounts are inactive, of course, but, still. Here...

Get the JavaCC book and a free copy of the PMD book

over 4 years ago by tomcopeland on Junior developer.
My publisher, Centennial Books, is running a promotional deal - if you buy my JavaCC book you also get a copy - free! - of my PMD book. The two books should...

RubyForge per-project RSS news feeds

over 4 years ago by tomcopeland on Junior developer.
Quite a while ago Hugh Sasse asked if an individual RubyForge project news page could have an RSS feed. That capability was built into GForge, but I couldn...

An excellent Continuous Integration book

over 4 years ago by tomcopeland on Junior developer.
Paul Duvall's has a new book out: Continuous Integration. It's a good one - it has lots of well stated reasons for doing a continuous integration system...

More JavaCC and Java 1.5

over 4 years ago by tomcopeland on Junior developer.
Last week I posted about some improvements to JavaCC's Java 1.5 code output. We've had some discussion on javacc-dev since then and now Sreenivasa has made...

RubyForge annoyance fix, 4000 projects

over 4 years ago by tomcopeland on Junior developer.
If you have several people in your RubyForge project you may have hit this problem - when one person uploads files to the project's virtual host, the files...

JavaCC, Java 1.5, and StringBuilder

over 4 years ago by tomcopeland on Junior developer.
I've just checked in a small patch to JavaCC - now it defaults to emitting Java 1.5 source code when generating a parser. You'll still be able to generate...

JavaCC and fixed width data

almost 5 years ago by tomcopeland on Junior developer.
Most JavaCC grammars are written to handle input that's variable-width - e.g., source code. But sometimes you need to be able to parse fixed width data...