Programming Insights

I updated man2html to support the following formatting constructs: \fB, \fI and \fP. I also fixed a few problems in the documentation.

Earlier today I needed to get the external IP addresses for windows and linux virtual machines from the command line for some simple VNC (Virtual Network Computing) experiments.

Over the years I have repeatedly had the need for a very simple scanner/parser to deal with line oriented data in text files. In almost every case I also wanted to support comments which made using "istream >>" and fscanf() challenging so I created a C++ class named simple_file_parser to handle it for me.

Today I updated the colorizer tool (http://www.joelinoff.com/colorizer.html) to support additional keywords and comments from perl, PHP, python and shells: bash, csh, sh and tcsh so that you can colorize code from those languages.

Today I added the man2html tool. This is a tool that I wrote because other other man2html programs that I found did not support enough troff constructs.

Today I added a color analysis tool that I developed for rendering all possible RGB colors. I have used it in the past to understand how colors are rendered in browsers and to develop the colors for the code colorizer.

The C++ standard is ISO/IEC 14882. It is available for purchase for the ANSI Standards Store (http://webstore.ansi.org). Here is what they have to say about it.

ISO/IEC 14882:2003 specifies requirements for implementations of the C++ programming language and standard library. By implication, it also defines C++ programs and their behavior.

Earlier this week I created a web based C++ code colorizer tool. It allows you to readable create code fragments that can be inserted into HTML documents. The tool is available here. See the help for detailed information about how to use it.

Here is an example of what it can generate:

Today I installed drupal to setup and manage my web site.

I considered three CMS systems: wordpress, joomla and drupal. I chose drupal because of what I read about it on the web and because my ISP (InMotion) makes it easy to install. I was up an running in about 10 minutes.