^txt2regex$ walks you through building a regular expression using plain English (or Japanese) and then shows you how to use that regex in some popular languages. Below is my test of making a phone number regex that would match 313-555-1234: [.]quit [0]reset [*]color ^txt2regex$ [|]or [(]open group !! not supported RegEx perl : [0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4} RegEx…

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My cell phone has some pretty cool location services. It will let me search for restaurants near my phone, movie times at theaters near my phone, that kind of thing. One of the niftiest features is “find a friend,” which allows me to get the location of people who have specifically added me to their…

Edd Dumbill has a weblog about technologies that aren’t the easiest to get into, but are rewarding when you do. Linux would be the first thing that comes to my mind – they say it’s user friendly, just picky about who its friends are. His latest entry is Sticking with it – Zope One of…