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Ruby helper classes for barcodes

December 23rd, 2009 Petros 3 comments

In my day job, I work a lot with barcodes. We develop Windows Mobile software for devices with barcode readers. From time to time, I need to do file manipulation chores. That is: colleagues give me text files that contain barcodes and ask me to transform these.

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Using Jing while working remotely

June 24th, 2009 Petros No comments

One of the tools I really appreciate because it helps me enhance my communication is Jing. Jing has a free edition that supports both screen captures with annotations and video captures with voice!

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Regular expression online tool

April 10th, 2008 Petros No comments

I think regular expressions is something every programmer should be familiar with. I am not saying, every programmer should write three lines of regexp strings, in three seconds without a cheat sheet. I am just saying that we should all know at least that they exist and what they are useful for.

The truth is, if it is the first you encounter regular expressions, you might have some difficulty remembering all those hieroglyphic expressions. There are cheat sheets and they can be handy, but I found something today that in my opinion is quite better: Online Regular Expression Testing Tool

Do you know any similar offline/online tool?

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