I’ve updated my post on getting java readline working with OS X. Some derivation of readline now seems to be included with Tiger (10.4), and that makes it important to put /opt/local/lib before /usr/lib in the library path.
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java readline for OS X post updated
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005Updated Java bundle for TextMate
Sunday, January 2nd, 2005I spent some time today integrating contributions to my Java bundle from a fellow TextMate user. I added a new template for Java interfaces and a number of snippets and commands for code generation.
I continue to love the powerful simplicity of TM.
Cool Tools: XPE
Thursday, September 16th, 2004
I recently discovered the joy of XPath, thanks to a talk at one of the IndyJUG meetings a couple of months ago. Once I got the most basic of grasps on XPath queries, I was able to start churning out some pretty slick scraped RSS feeds for things like Pollstar artist and city searches, eBay searches, Iconfactory and Konfabulator recent updates, and a bunch of others. Actually, that little project’s a good showcase of a couple of my favorite tools, Henplus and Tagsoup.
Anyway, one of the biggest difficulties I ran into was visualizing the results of XPath queries without having to dump the results with an XSL stylesheet, which was a less-than-elegant solution. After a bit of Googling, I came up with a tool called XPE.
It's the only "free" (for any definition of free) tool I’ve found so far that allows me to evalue XPath statements and see their affect on a document.
XPE isn't terribly fancy in the interface department, and can be a little sluggish at times, but it is extremely effective. The default view on startup is a graphical tree representation of the nodes in the loaded XML document. When you evaluate an XPath, XPE highlights the matched elements (but not text nodes) and expands the short-format to it's fully-qualified (and durn ugly, I might add) form.
All in all, a very nice Open Sourced tool (BSD license).
All in all, a very nice Open Sourced tool (BSD license).
Prepare to walk the plank!
Wednesday, September 1st, 2004In my copious free time ™, I worked up a quick Blojsom plugin filter based on Dougal’s text filter suite for WordPress, which happens to include a Talk Like a Pirate filter. It’s a fairly simple concept, but, as usual, I went a little overboard. In order to avoid unintentionally piratizing links and other non-text elements in an entry, I used tagsoup and some XPath queries (thanks to Xalan ) to iterate over the text nodes. This took me a few hours to whack out, but I’m sure it would have taken a few more to come up with regular expressions to match non-tags.
There’re both binary and source tarballs available. The binary contains three JARs that you drop in Blojsom’s WEB-INF/lib directory (tlap.jar, tagsoup.jar, and xalan.jar). Do the usual enable-plugin jig (arrr=org.bravo5.tlap.TLAPFilter in plugin.properties) and add “arrr” to the plugin chain for your favorite flavor (vanilla! yummy!).
Please be aware that this is walk-the-plank-ware. That means if you try to come back at me when it makes your computer go kablooie, I don’t want to hear it. I know it’s alpha (at best), and frankly, it compiled and ran the first time (mostly), so you just know something’s broken… I’ll update this entry as progress … er … progresses.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.—jwz
update
The source is now in my Subversion repository