Massive Regular Expressions Toolbox

Regular expressions (”regex’s” for short) are sets of symbols and syntactic elements used to match patterns of text and they are pretty powerful. Regular expressions have been around for a very long time (in computer industry scale) and was first introduced as part of the powerful UNIX search tool grep.

The regex syntax used commonly today is compliant with Extended Regular Expressions (EREs) defined in IEEE POSIX 1003.2 (Section 2.8). EREs are supported by Apache, PHP4+, Javascript 1.3+, MS Visual Studio, MS Frontpage, most visual editors, vi, emac, the GNU family of tools (including grep, awk and sed) as well as many others. Extended Regular Expressions (EREs) will support Basic Regular Expressions (BREs are essentially a subset of EREs). The BRE syntax is considered obsolete and is only still around to preserve backward compatibility.

I believe mastering at least the most basic elements of regex is essential for any programmer. Further I know that having direct access to references, examples, ready to use patterns etc. is essential to speed up your work.

This is a toolbox for getting started and/or becoming more serious about regex. It provides details on commonly needed regexs that you can just pick up and use right away. Lets get started! [Detail]

Excellent Free Editors and IDEs for Developers

Most developers have picked their favourite editor and/or IDE and use it many hours every day (and night). Still it can be quite useful to know what the free alternatives are. Some of the free editors and IDEs available are really high quality and may be worth investigating. If your manly using a large IDE it is likely that having a simple editor as well may improve your efficiency when just editing sigle files. The free alternative IDEs are also very powerful oprions and may beat some commercials competitors easily when it comes to feaures and easy of use. In this article tripwire magazine provides a list of more than 20 free Editors and IDEs useful for most developers. Let us all know if I missed a great product by posting a comment. [Detail]

60+ Must Have jQuery Toolbox

When developing Web Applications one of the most challenging tasks is to make the solution cross-browser compliant. It’s been this was since the early days of www and it is not likely to change in the near future. Client side scripting is very important for creating interactive functionality and dynamic effects on web pages but Javascript is executed in the client browser and this means they are directly affected by the differences in web browsers. Fortunately some of highly skilled developers have dedicated their precious time and passion to create frameworks that encapsulate most of the browser related difficulties and in many ways makes difficult parts of client side scripting fun and not a nightmare. This article will briefly introduce you to the Javascript framework jQuery and then provide excellent examples of the low hanging fruits waiting for you if you’re starting to use jQuery. jQuery is just one of several frameworks that all have powerful features. Why focus on Javascript frameworks anyway? [Detail]

35 Extremely Useful Free Online Tools for Web Developers and Designer

Creating Web Sites is not a simple task at all and the value of getting some help from useful online tools should not be underestimated. Creating web applications requires deep knowledge and experience with many different tools, techniques, standards etc. and it is hard for developers and designers to keep track. [Detail]

15 Really Useful Web-based HTML Editors

Web-based HTML Editor, WYSIWYG editor, or rich text editor, is a web component that let users enter rich text input within the browser. Most of the time, these html editors are used within content management systems where administrators or authors can easily create posts and contents from the backend system. [Detail]

10 Utile tools and resources for design community

I hope these tools and resources would be very helpful to all my readers. [Detail]