bluray,code,technology,windows 31 December 2008

Well, I started a project to rip chapter information from MPLS files and save them as Matroska XML file. Now, there are already atleast ten different ways to get the chapter information out of the MPLS file associated with the M2TS video on the disc, but I wanted one …

 code,review,technology,unix 12 April 2008

Introduction
I had some extra time while I’ve been working on the MeGUI guide, and thought I’d take a look at Solaris 10 and some of the offshoots of the OpenSolaris ‘movement’.
Now, as a disclaimer: I am not running these OSs natively.  These were installed in VMWare Fusion 1.1.1 and Parallels …

 code,diy 27 February 2008

Well, an associate of mine posted some code which scrolled through a line of text and removed offending characters of his choice.  The offending characters were curly brackets.  I always loved the power of Perl and regular expressions, so I decided to see how bad my “coding” skills were and …