PetitParser for Smalltalk, Java and Dart
I am happy to announce initial ports of PetitParser to Java and Dart. The repositories contain complete and usable ports of the original Smalltalk implementation, unit tests and example grammars.
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Composite Grammars with PetitParser
In a previous post I described the basic principles of PetitParser and gave some introductory examples. In this blog post I am going to present a way to define more complicated grammars. We continue where we left off the last time, with the expression grammar.
PhD Defense Video & Slides
For those that missed my PhD defense, below the video recording of the event. Thanks go to Tudor Gîrba and Jorge Ressia for recording it. The slides can be found on SlideShare.
PhD Defense on Dynamic Language Embedding
I would like to invite to my PhD defense:
New OmniBrowser Completion Dialog
The latest version of OmniBrowser includes a completion dialog that is used at various places to ease the use of the keyboard. This new dialog is currently used for the following features:
How does Monticello merge?
There is a repeated confusion on how merging in Monticello works. This post tries to clear up the situation. In the following examples we always start from the same situation displayed below. P is the name of the package we are working with and the number behind P.1 signifies a specific version of that package. The Working Copy is the code we currently have in our Smalltalk image.
More Filesystems
In my recent post I've mentioned that the Filesystem library can work on different kinds of filesystems. In this post I am going to walk you through the supported filesystems one by one.
Writing Parsers with PetitParser
After the announcement in the Moose mailing list and after various people have asked me to provide some introduction to PetitParser I decided to write short tutorial.
Disk Filesystem
A while ago Colin Putney announced the Filesystem framework, a nice and extensible replacement for the ugly FileDirectory class in Pharo. While all core classes are well commented, there is a quick start missing that explains how end users are supposed to adopt the framework. This blog post should fill that gap.
Smalltalk/Ruby BlockCamp in Paris
I'll be attending the BlockCamp the coming Saturday in Paris, a joint event between Smalltalk and Ruby. I am prepared to give 3 short presentations: