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Regular Expressions are Anything But Regular

Regular Expressions are Anything But Regular

I’ve been spending a bit of time the last couple of days trying to figure out exactly how regular expressions work. I’ve got to use one in an application I’m working on and I’m just not getting the syntax organization at all. Although you may think it’s gibberish, the text above is the regular expression I’m using for the solution to my earlier problem. Doesn’t look very "regular" does it? Aside from the fact it’s using… More »

I Wanna Be Like Lim

I Wanna Be Like Lim

Most of us were still playing with toys when we were 9 years old. Lim Ding Wen, isn’t like any other kid though. At the tender age of 9 Lim is already an accomplished iPhone programmer. His program “Doodle Kids” has been downloaded 4,000 times from the iTunes App Store.

The program is a high-tech etch-a-sketch. You can draw on the iPhone using your fingers and then shake the device to erase it.

He’s fluent in a number of programming… More »