I’ve been fascinated by the Scala language since I first saw it. I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to use Scala in a couple of projects. One of the parts of the Scala standard library I really like is the parser combinator stuff. Â I’ve been spending a bit of time recently playing with some …
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The first stage of my port of pegged to Swift is successful :)
I have managed to get the Objective-C version of pegged to spit out a parser using Swift rather than Objective-C 🙂 It’s getting late, so I really should get some sleep. I finally figured out what was causing the compiler to crash. Â The following code will crash the Swift compiler unless the inout parameter to …
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Swift compiler is crashing for me :(
I’ve been spending a bit of time having a play with Apple’s Swift. Â So far I find the language to be interesting. It seems to be missing a few things. Â Working with strings is a real pain 🙁 Â Hopefully this will be fixed in later versions of the language/compiler. I’m also hitting many problems with …
Apples Swift Langauge
I’ve been playing with the new language from Apple called Swift. Â It looks like it might be interesting, especially if they open it up so it can be used on other platforms. I’ve whipped up a little test app that includes a nicer way to work with NSTimer objects from Swift as the usual way …
PIC32 Prototyping
I’ve been thinking for a while that prototyping stuff with the DIP PIC32 parts should be easier, so I built something over the weekend to make that a reality. Instead of this: I can now start with this: It is just the bare minimum to get a DIP PIC32 part up and running with USB …
Dissapointment
I wanted to play Turrican 2 the other day so I fired up an Amiga emulator, but playing it via the keyboard really wasn’t cutting it, so I broke out a USB game pad I had floating around the place. Â That also didn’t feel quite right 🙁 Â What I needed was an old Atari style …
Objective-C to Java and back again via JNI and Unix pipes
I’ve been working on a piece of software for some time now that is almost ready for a public release. Â For part of it I needed to connect to various databases, some of which are only accessible via JDBC. Â My problem is that my app is written in Objective-C. Â For the first version of my …
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My boy has died
For those who have been following my blog for a while will know that my son has (had) an incurable disease. Â On Wednesday he finally succumbed.
More Yealink VP-2009 stuff
I have to admit is a little disappointed with the phone when I got it. Â I updated the firmware as far as it would allow me, but the more recent versions of the software would not install 🙁 Â After a bit of googling I found that there was supposedly a procedure for updating the old …
Yealink VOIP phone back doors
Yesterday I took delivery of a Yealink VP-2009 VIOP phone. Â I was hoping it would be a nicer phone than it actually turned out to be. Â I have a Yealink T38G and was really happy with it. Â Unfortunately a lot of the features I like in the T38G are not present in the VP-2009. Ah …