tcepsa: (iSquared)
2008-04-07 05:34 pm

Fun With Perl And Eclipse!

With the current project I am on, the build consists of a couple of steps:
1) Shutdown Tomcat
2) Run an ant script that does the actual compiling and putting things where they go
3) Startup Tomcat

(When I want to deploy changes that I just made to relatively static things, like Javascript files, I can just do step two)

Cut for excessive geekery )
tcepsa: (Default)
2005-10-14 04:22 pm
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Today's Geekgasm is brought to you by Perl

Today I got a much better idea of some of the things that it is possible to do with Perl's Regular Expressions and oh my Deity of Choice they are just blowing me away. I mean, I knew they were powerful, but I didn't quite appreciate just how much so. In fact, I'm pretty sure I still don't fully grasp the power that they embody. At this point I am tempted to say that they can do pretty much any string manipulation you would care for. Yes, I said any. But then again, I'm not that familiar with them yet, so it is possible that there is some scenario that I haven't taken into account. I know that I'm not at the level yet where I can use them to do that, but that doesn't mean I don't aspire to it ;)