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Attacked and rebuilt 16 Mar 2012 | 10:56 am
You may have noticed that all my sites went dark last week. This was in response to my discovery of a severe intrusion into my hosting account, as a result of which malicious Javascript was injected i...
Switching to Git 19 Feb 2012 | 09:59 am
I migrated my SVN repository to Git yesterday and moved the XBBCode project to GitHub Drupal.org yesterday. The git migration should make it much easier to manage multiple branches for different Drupa...
XBBCode revisited in Python 14 Feb 2012 | 11:19 am
In recent years I have switched from PHP to using Python for most of my programming. That's not because PHP is particularly bad, because having worked with Drupal for most of seven years now, I dismis...
Extensible BBCode for Drupal 7 27 Oct 2010 | 09:43 am
I'm happy to announce that my extensible BBCode module XBBCode is now ported to Drupal 7. I last worked on (and wrote about) this module in April while writing a new parsing engine for it. Altho...
Paper-based computing 24 Oct 2010 | 07:24 am
While traveling to a workshop with a friend and family this morning, I had the rare occasion to be not only awed by a piece of technology, but completely flabbergasted at its existence. This friend ha...
Server moved, PHP rebuilt 24 Aug 2010 | 02:28 am
Yesterday, the entire Ermarian Network was migrated to a different server. After spending the past four years on millhouse, an AMD Opteron machine with two 2GHz cores and 2GB RAM, it is now hosted on ...
Code Jam 2010 9 May 2010 | 11:27 am
The first qualification round of the Google Code Jam just ended, and I managed to scrape through with two of the three problems solved in time. On the third, unfortunately, I failed to take into accou...
Hard drives and stupidity do not mix 29 Apr 2010 | 07:39 pm
At 0400 on Wednesday (yesterday), my home partition suddenly disappeared. I didn't have a clue what had happened, but the problem persisted on reboot. Now, Enki has two hard drives - one contain...
Building a better Tag-Parser, part 2 17 Apr 2010 | 12:11 am
As I concluded in the first part, one problem remains with the strict "inner-tag-first" evaluation of code (which roughly equates to a Left-Right-Root traversal of the code tree). Namely, some tags, l...
Building a better Tag-Parser 16 Apr 2010 | 10:15 am
The Problem If you read the code of my Extensible BBCode module for [[Drupal]], you'll notice that my tag parsing algorithm is kind of complex. In two steps, the tags are first "paired" (inserti...
