http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.sorcerers-isle.net Welcome to Sorcerer's Isle, a weblog covering a multitude of topics, ranging from programming to 3D graphics; photography to gadgets; tutorials to tinkering. Event http://www.sorcerers-isle.net/article/international_regular_expressions_day_2010.html <p>It's 1st June 2010 today, and that means we're celebrating for the third time the annual International Regular Expressions Day.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bennadel.com">Ben Nadel</a> kicked off this event two years ago, in order to promote the use of Regex, especially amongst those who might consider them something scary and obscure.</p> <p>As before, Ben is running a contest, this year's prizes being some O'Reily Regex books and IIS Mod-Rewrite Pro licenses.</p> <p>Entry to the competition requires writing some code, and the deadline is today, so if you're interested then hurry up and <a href="http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1923-3rd-Annual-Inter-National-Regular-Expression-Day-And-Prizes-June-1st-2010.htm">read the blog entry to find out more</a>.</p> <br/> <p style="text-align:center"><big><a href="http://www.regular-expression-day.com/">Happy Regex Day!</a></big></p> <br/> Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:20:26 GMT http://www.sorcerers-isle.net/article/0100_1001_1001_0110_0000_0010_1101_0010.html <p>If the momentus event this post is celebrating wasn't obvious from the title, here is an even bigger clue:</p> <code class="compact block">echo "scale=33;4*a(1)" | bc -l | perl -e'$p=&lt;STDIN&gt;;$p=~s/^(\d)\.(\d)(\d)\2(\d)\d(\d)(\d)\d{3}(\d{2})(\d)\d\d{17}(\d)\d*$/\2\5\1\3\4\6\8\7\9/;print$p'</code> <p>:)</p> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:00 GMT http://www.sorcerers-isle.net/article/lydd_airshow.html <p>Last weekend I went to my first airshow in ages, at <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=Lydd,%20Kent,%20TN29&z=10">Lydd in Kent</a>, and took lots of photos of the various flying machines there.</p> <p>This entry is essentially just an excuse to show of some of the photos I took.</p> Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:38:10 GMT