Facing new challenges everyday

Yesteday I finished the port of Java XMLBuilder to .NET, now you can use any .NET language to easily create xml documents, .NET XMLBuilder is written in Delphi Prism and released under Apache 2.0 license. The current release of XMLBuilder can be download here.

XMLBuilder is very easy to use, it contains a kind of DSL, a basic example can be checked below:
(more…)

Go is a new language coming from Google, it isn’t fully object oriented as Java, or completely dynamic typed as Python, Go is in the middle of both worlds, it aims to be clean, fast to compile, safe and fun.

I wrote a small program where I can call the google translator service on the web to translate a text, and to be honest, its a very simple task, I wrote this tool in less than 5 hours without any previous experience with Go.

The entire program code can be checked below:

(more…)

One of the features that I always pay attention in a framework is how we can control what can be rendered in a view and what not, many frameworks uses a scriplet language, some others uses a kind of template system for this purpose and a few give to the user a object oriented way to do it.

In this article I’ll show an example of how we can take the control of view rendering on lift framework with the help of snippets. With snippets you will be able to perform any server side interaction that you need, you can call a snippet by placing a tag on view code, this tag has a naming convention required to call the snippet properly, a snippet always emmit markup back to the user.
(more…)

Today I started my study about RubyCocoa and how it works, my first project was a simple system service for MacOSX Leopard where the user can type a portuguese text, select it and translate to english, the user can also type the text in english and execute the system service to translate it back to portuguese.

Here’s what I did:
(more…)

ApplesScript is a very interesting scripting language that allows the user to write scripts to automate computer tasks, it differs from the other script languages because of its syntax that is pretty closer to natural language.

I spent few hours this morning trying to understand how to write AppleScript scripts, It’s very simple, please read the AppleScript Language Guide to learn more about how to use AppleScript with your favorite applications.

The scripts below give to us an idea about how we can use AppleScript to change the behaviour of 4 most popular applications for MacOSX: iChat, Growl, Adium and Skype.

iChatStatus

iChatStatus can be used to change status message of the user on iChat. The first line starts with “tell” statement, we use this statement to specify the target of all commands on this script, in the second line we are using the “set” command to change a the value of “status message” property value on application to “New iChat status message”, the third line finishes the “tell” statement.

(more…)