Ed Cottrell

  • FOSS OTD: The Regex Coach

    Today’s FOSS OTD is oriented towards programmers who need a good way to test regular expressions. Check out The Regex Coach – interactive regular expressions. It updates in real time, as you edit a regex or its target text. Very, very cool. Not actually open source, but still very cool.

  • FOSS OTD: 10/19-10/23

    Okay, so I got behind on the FOSS OTD postings. Catching up: 10/19: PHP is a wonderful, fast, and flexible OSS scripting language for web programming and stand-alone applications. 10/20: FileZilla is a free FTP client. There is also a great FileZilla Server application. 10/21: PuTTY is a free telnet/SSH client. Very dependable and flexible.…

  • Whatever happened to…

    Whatever happened to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame?” Why are the World Series games featuring “God Bless America?” That’s a fine sentiment – though not a very good piece of music, in my opinion – but a seventh-inning stretch without “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” is an outrage. In fact, it’s unpatriotic, even…

  • FOSS OTD: AstroGrep

    Defined as a “Windows GUI grep utility,” AstroGrep is a search tool, similar to the “grep” tool in Linux, but with a Graphical User Interface (GUI, i.e. a window, not a command line). It’s faster and more reliable, in my experience, than the built-in Windows file search features. It can show search results in context…

  • Rough Day

    Okay, it could have been much worse, but this was a rough day. I smacked into the curb, pulling out of the garage, this morning. No damage to the car, so far as I can tell. I bollixed up my understanding of a set of cases in Contracts. I made a fool of myself in…