Merry Christmas! Have an XML parser :-)
So, after the entire Santa experience and after my kids left to be with their mother, I decided to pay a visit to the ghost of Source Code past. I dug up a little XML parser I wrote to accompany the Book of Sax. I was amazed that the code built and ran the first time (with several warnings that show how the Java language has changed in the past 10 years or so.) So, if you need a very small and pretty fast XML parser in Java, go to github and clone picoSax. If you go in and clean up all of the warnings, I’ll even send you a copy of the book!
I’ve seen the future, and the future is … COBOL?
Ok, so in the process of migrating to my new laptop I’ve been forced to look at several of my old projects. I don’t remember where I found the time, but ten years ago I must have written a _lot_ of code. One of the more bizarre projects I did back then was a Y2K solution that involved cross-compiling COBOL programs to Java bytecode. I only implemented about 50% of the COBOL feature set back then, but it still turns out to be 600+ source files and who-knows-how-many thousands of LOCs.
So rather than let it sit on my hard drive gathering virtual dust, I’ve created a Sourceforge project for it. Check out the Universal COBOL Compiler project when you have a chance. There’s nothing out there but a one-paragraph synopsis and a bunch of code in the CVS repository, but at least it’s not hidden on my computer anymore!
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