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Not Hawaii-specific resources, but: I got a lot of recruiter contacts when I posted my resume on Dice (a.k.a. Geekfinder for User Friendly fans) In the end though, word of mouth is the best way.. Continue

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Consultant, Network/Systems Administrator, Project Manager, Software Developer
Areas of Interest (Robotics, Software Architecture, Green Energy, Web 2.0, etc.):
Software architecture, Agile development, domain-specific languages, Internet services, BSD Unix, Linux, MS .Net, Perl, pattern-oriented development; lately interested in functional programming. (Hell, I'm pretty much interested in everything. The world is interesting.)
Software Language Proficiencies / Interests:
C, C++, C#, HTML, Pascal, Perl, PHP
About Me:
30+ year veteran software developer and entrepreneur, co-founder of LavaNet, co-founder of Tiki Technologies. Now lending a hand at Sanjole.
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www.iandicomputing.com
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Recursive descent parsing with BNF grammars

(This is a modified repost of a post I recently put up on our company's wiki, explaining a very old CS concept/approach which seems to be rather neglected lately in production use.)

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If you're implementing any sort of miniature language as part of some software (query language, scripting capability) or even just attempting to parse structured input of some kind, using the full-boogie compiler-builder tools like YACC, bison, and friends can seem like overkill. If you… Continue

Posted on December 20th, 2007 at 9:38am — 3 Comments (Add)

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At 4:11am on March 31st, 2008, Daniel Leuck said…
Hey Clifton - How are things? I just posted an entry on JavaCC and JJTree inspired by your recursive descent parsing article.
At 3:31pm on December 21st, 2007, Antonio Querubin said…
Actually I think I was out of work at the time having been laid off from Pixi just before Christmas.
At 9:08am on December 20th, 2007, Yuka Nagashima said…
yo, clifto!
At 5:43pm on December 18th, 2007, Daniel Leuck said…
Hi Clifton,

Welcome! Its great to have one of Hawaii's original internet gurus on our network. I remember meeting with you at Lavanet many years ago back when I was running Tollan with Grant Ishikawa.
 
 
 

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