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edit: You're seeing this post about a week after I wrote it...

Not much to report this week, spent most of it working in South Dakota.

Monday, Day 19: Worked all day, then spent a good part of the evening building a Windows Home Server. I have to say, it was a really easy process. I'm using a refurb Dell Optiplex GX280 that I picked up for < $200 at MicroCenter. I ran into TWO small snags while building it. The first was a driver issue (easily resolved with a trip to the Dell website) and the second was the size of the internal drive (too small.)  I replaced the internal with a much larger SATA drive (which I intended to do anyway) and everything else worked like a champ. I'm sitting at about 1.5TB right now, but I suspect I'll be picking up a few more drives soon.

Tuesday, Day 20: just another day at work, not much to report. Spent some time working on a text parser, which was a lot of fun. Kind of like playing Where's Waldo, only in code.

Wednesday, Day 21 - Friday, Day 23: Same as above.  Maybe I'll write an article about the text parsing I'm doing. Sanitized of course, to remove anything client specific. We'll see.
posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:25 AM

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# re: 2009 - Day 19 to 23 1/29/2009 1:48 PM Donn Felker
Are you using any Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) in the text parser or is it just a simple parser? PEG's as in - expression tree's, etc. ??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar

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