Hello, and welcome to the second part of the Markdown Compiler series! In case you’ve missed it, here is the first part.
In this part we’ll talk about the second step in compiling: Parsing – also known as Syntactic Analysis. This part has a bit more theory, so it might take some time to digest. Sip some coffee, relax, take yout time, and as long as you don’t rush it you’ll find it’s not hard at all 🙂
Have you ever wanted to make your own programming language? Maybe a template engine? A JSON parser? If you have ever built any of those, you might have noticed it’s not exactly easy to get started. There are a lot of concepts to digest before you get going. That’s why lots of devs just give up. We’d like to help with that.
A well-designed Domain Specific Language (DSL) can help you be more productive as a developer, thus making you, your team and your clients happier. In this post, I’ll guide you through the design and creation of a simple DSL to create EPUB files. We’ll start with a regular API and refactoring until we get to a DSL solution.
Continue reading “Writing DSLs: The joy of human consumable APIs”
This post is about pretty code (with examples in Ruby), plus how to get nil out of the way and be more confident.
Does this code look familiar?
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Continue reading “Avoid nil-checks. Code confidently. Be happy.”
We’re thrilled to announce the availability of the Publish To Apple News plugin for WordPress. It’s an open source plugin for the WordPress web platform that enables publishers to push their blog and website content to News, Apple’s all-new app available with iOS 9.
Continue reading “Introducing ‘Publish To Apple News’ – Open Source WordPress Plugin”
If you are a developer, chances are very good that you know what Object-Oriented (OO) code is. You might have also heard about OOÂ Design Patterns, things like single responsibilities, decoupled code, and my subject here:Â Dependency Injection (DI).
With everything that we’ve learned with our last post, Communicating with a Web Viewer in FileMaker, it makes sense to wrap up the functionality into a FileMaker module and JavaScript library.
A few mappings to help boost your Vim workflow.
Switch between absolute line numbers (normal), relative numbers (based on distance from your cursor) and no numbers at all using CTRL-n:
What must an Operating System do to satisfy web developers’ needs? This is a tricky question, as each person is a whole different world, so it’s impossible to have a single answer to satisfy every person.
