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19 September 2006 | 3 Comments
After reading a post about colour schemes and font choices for use in an IDE, it seems I’m one of the only people on the planet that uses non-monospace fonts for coding. So, in the spirit of equal access, I’ve decided to try a couple of different fonts in MonoDevelop. While it doesn’t have the [...]
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15 September 2006 | 0 Comments
So I had this idea of writing a quick search plugin for Beagle to search Rhythmbox’s current playlist titles. They would show up in the search GUI and then you’d double-click on one and it’d handle this (probably through a pseudo-URL like playlist://rhythmbox/my-playlist-name which seems to be the de facto standard amongst Beagle plugins) by [...]
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8 August 2006 | 2 Comments
Let me warn you from the start: Patrick Michaud’s slides make it look deceptively easy! First of all, I created “simple.pg” according to his recipe: grammar Simple::Grammar ; token variable { [ | _ ] \w* } token number { \d+ } token addop { \+ | – } token mulop { \* | / [...]
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25 June 2006 | 0 Comments
XML 1.0 allows you to insert characters from the C1 control code range, whilst those from the C0 range are outright forbidden. XML 1.1 allows you to insert characters from the C0 range as long as they are escaped as character entity references, and mandates that you do the same for those from the C1 [...]
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