Super serial!

import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.Serializable;    
class Doug implements Serializable {
  public Doug(PrintWriter out) {
    out.println(getMood());
  }
  private static String getMood() {
    return ":-(";
  }
}
/*
 * __        ___   ___   __  ____   ___
 * \ \      / / | | \ \ / / / ___| / _ \
 *  \ \ /\ / /| |_| |\ V /  \___ \| | | |
 *   \ V  V / |  _  | | |    ___) | |_| |
 *    \_/\_/  |_| |_| |_|   |____/ \___/
 *
 *  ____  _____ ____  ___    _    _    ___
 * / ___|| ____|  _ \|_ _|  / \  | |  |__ \
 * \___ \|  _| | |_) || |  / _ \ | |    / /
 *  ___) | |___|  _ < | | / ___ \| |___|_|
 * |____/|_____|_| \_\___/_/   \_\_____(_)
 */

With the upcoming Core Wars Tournament looming, a small cartoon is in order!

Core Wars is a programming game where programs called warriors face off in an epic battle to crash each other.

As the "final commit" mentions, 387 days and 330 commits after the I started, tvnamer and tvdb_api are at a point where I'm happy to release "version 1.0"!

tvnamer is probably of most interest, it's an automagical TV episode renamer, turning files from "some.show.s01e01.hdtv.blah.avi" to "Some Show - [01x01] - The Real Episode Name.avi", using information from thetvdb.com

To install, simply do..

/alias figlet /exec - -o echo $0-| figlet -w 60 | awk -F% 'function randint(n){return int(33+n * rand())} {printf("\x03%s%s\n",randint(12),$1)}'</pre class='code'>

Combining the joys of shell scripting, figlet, irssi colour escape codes and two different kind of escape sequences, you can achieve the following...

Songza is a popular website that allows you to listen to almost any song instantly. Most of the songs are MP3 files, but there doesn't seem to be a way to download them. Some of the results are youtube videos, but the videos are invisible, only the music plays. Let's fix that.

This is the second part of the catchily named Regex-for-people-who-should-know-regex-but-do-not guide. If you are unfamiliar with the basics of regular expression syntax, then I recommend you first read part 1, or any of the many regular expressions primers available online.

What follows is a repost of my first article on nulldigital.net, on the 10th of May 2006. A long time ago, when I was all innocent! Good times. The original article as been modified slightly as I sounded like such a git back then. I know it's slightly simple for this site but since nulldigital.net is closing I want to repost the articles from there to neverfear.org. So lets get started..

Regular expressions are very useful. If you have to deal with text at all, you will find them indispensable. In programming, they can be used to verify user input (e.g check an email is valid), sanitize input (make sure the user only used allowed characters), remove sections of the string (remove all non-alpha-numeric characters). And not just for programming! You can use regular expressions in many text editors to edit the current file. You can use them in the grep command to find very specific lines, or in the sed "stream editor" to edit out bits of a file..

The video

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