Jez Higgins
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Applications, Libraries, Code
Talks & Presentations
Swoop
Asteroidsy retro-game for Android phones
Software Tools in C++
Software Tools in C++ rewrites the programs in Software Tools in Pascal
CycleStreets for Android
Full featured journey planner and sat-nav for cyclists
Arabica
Arabica is an XML and HTML processing toolkit, providing SAX2, DOM, XPath, and XSLT implementations, written in Standard C++
Rillet.js
A JavaScript streams/ranges library
Eliza in Python
A cheesy little Eliza knock-off
2023
2022
- 15 December - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.74 : Double Swoop
- 08 November - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.73 : The Next Twenty Minutes…
- 22 September - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.72 : STinC++ - edit, another five minute increment
- 13 September - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.71 : STinC++ - edit, five minute insert
- 07 September - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.69 : STinC++ - edit, a barely walking skeleton
- 29 August - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.68 : STinC++ - Chapter Six Kick Off
- 11 January - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.67 : STinC++ - Chapter Five Wrap Up
- 02 January - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.66 : STinC++ - change
2021
- 14 October - Talk: Down To The Metal
- 19 August - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.65 : STinC++ - find
- 29 May - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.64 : STinC++ - Chapter Four Wrap Up
- 26 May - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.63 : STinC++ - kwic and unrotate
- 23 April - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.62 : STinC++ - unique
- 31 March - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.61 : STinC++ - sorting large files
2020
- 31 December - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.60 : STinC++ - quick sort, part 2
- 30 December - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.59 : STinC++ - quick sort
- 28 December - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.58 : STinC++ - in-memory text sort
- 08 November - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.56 : STinC++ - Shell sort
- 14 September - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.55 : STinC++ - bubble sort
- 28 August - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.53 : STinC++ - Chapter Three Wrap Up
- 24 August - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.52 : STinC++ - archive update, extract
- 06 August - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.51 : STinC++ - archive contents, delete, print
- 15 July - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.50 : STinC++ - archive create
- 14 July - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.49 : STinC++ - archive
- 03 July - Talk: Journey Into Space
- 05 June - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.48 : STinC++ - makecopy
- 30 April - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.46 : STinC++ - print
- 25 April - Arabica: April 2020 Release
- 17 April - Arabica: Inching Toward The Future
- 14 April - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.45 : STinC++ - concat
- 12 April - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.44 : STinC++ - include
- 05 February - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.43 : STinC++ - compare
2019
- 28 November - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.40 : STinC++ - Chapter Two Wrap Up
- 26 November - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.39 : STinC++ - translit
- 19 November - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.37 : STinC++ - echo
- 12 November - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.36 : STinC++ - expand
- 03 November - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.35 : STinC++ - compress
- 24 October - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.33 : STinC++ - overstrike
- 07 October - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.31 : STinC++ - entab
- 05 September - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.28 : STinC++ - Chapter One Wrap Up
- 03 September - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.27 : STinC++ - detab
- 21 August - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.26 : STinC++ - wordcount
- 20 August - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.25 : STinC++ - linecount
- 15 August - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.24 : STinC++ - charcount
- 09 August - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.22 : STinC++ - copy
- 05 August - The Forest Road Reader, No 2.21 : Software Tools In C++
2018
2017
- 31 August - Functional Programming with Rillet: Roman Numerals
- 25 August - Functional Programming with Rillet: FizzBuzz
- 07 August - Eliza in Python
- 07 July - From X to Y
- 29 May - Extending Rillet
- 09 May - Rillet.js - a JavaScript streams library
- 29 April - Talk: A Browse Through ES6
2014
- 29 April - Talk: How I Got Excited About Java. Again.
2013
- 16 November - Making Jenkins Better - For You
- 04 March - XML output should actually be XML
2012
- 28 November - Innovative phone app for Community Payback
- 28 November - Arabica Release - 2012 November
- 28 November - Arabica Release
- 11 September - Mango on GitHub
- 07 September - Arabica on GitHub
- 06 July - CycleStreets Android app release
- 22 June - CycleStreets Android app is one year old
- 27 April - A love letter to Boost.Spirit
- 13 January - Thanks Santa!
2011
- 27 September - CycleStreets Android App Development Builds
- 23 June - CycleStreets for Android now available
- 03 June - Just don't
2010
- 30 December - Arabica: DOM Conformance Tests
- 22 December - Patching Clang for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
- 27 October - New release: The Mango Library
- 27 October - Mango Release. Panic ye not!
- 24 October - New release: Arabica XML and HTML Processing Toolkit
- 24 October - Arabica Release - 2010 November
- 02 August - New release: Dublin Core and eGMS Metadata Viewer for Firefox
- 07 July - Easy XML?
- 04 June - Getting Groovy
- 21 May - Zippy Triples with Groovy and Mango
- 21 May - Zippy triples served with Java and Mango
- 13 May - Mango Release. You can tell it's summer, the iterators are blooming.
- 24 January - Continuous Integration for One
2009
- 08 December - Dublin Core and eGMS Metadata Viewer
- 05 November - Mango Release, now with added Generics
- 05 November - Arabica source code repository
- 07 August - Security: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
- 01 August - Arabica: Development snapshots
- 01 August - Arabica Release
- 13 March - Arabica March 2009 Release
- 13 March - Arabica Release
- 27 February - Arabica
2008
- 20 October - Arabica FAQ: When will Arabica's XSLT library be finished?
- 19 October - Arabica FAQ: What are all those failing tests, and why are they ignored?
- 18 October - Arabica October 2008 Release
- 17 October - Arabica: Cutting October 2008 release
- 17 October - Arabica Release
- 06 August - Arabica: XSLT: Variable resolution
- 06 August - Arabica: impending release
- 28 May - Arabica: Visual Studio, how I curse your useless warning C4800
- 18 April - Arabica: XSLT: Implementing position matches[2]
- 09 February - A filtering iterator in C++
- 08 February - Arabica: Taggle: Parameterised on string_type
- 31 January - Arabica: Taggle: Building the code
- 31 January - Article: Introduction to Arabica
- 31 January - Arabica
- 30 January - Arabica: Taggle: And there it is ...
- 29 January - Taggle: Bringing HTML Parsing to Arabica
- 03 January - C++: copy_while and copy_until
2007
- 21 December - Arabica: XSLT: Implementing position matches
- 17 December - Arabica: XSLT: Position matches
- 05 December - Talk: Iteration - It's just one damn thing after another
- 05 November - Arabica: XSLT: Test case results spreadsheet
- 04 November - Arabica: XSLT: Test case results latest
- 03 November - Arabica: XSLT: A personal programming milestone
- 29 October - Arabica: XSLT: Test case update
- 19 October - Arabica: XPath: Interface changes
- 19 October - Arabica
- 02 October - Arabica October 2007 Release
- 02 October - Arabica Release
- 26 September - Arabica September 2007 Release 2
- 19 September - Arabica September 2007 Release
- 15 September - Arabica: New release any time now
- 05 September - Arabica: What's going on next?
- 05 September - Arabica: What's going on next? Progress
- 05 September - Arabica
- 04 September - Arabica
- 31 August - Arabica August 2007 Release
- 31 August - Arabica August 2007 Build Report
- 28 August - Arabica: XSLT: Test case state of play
- 20 August - Mango Library
- 17 August - New Mango Release
- 15 August - Mango: Makeover
- 10 August - Arabica: Visual Studio 2005 Builds
- 07 August - Arabica: Always comes back to bite you in the end ...
- 19 July - Arabica: XSLT: The Big Merge
- 14 June - Arabica: XSLT: tests
- 11 May - Arabica: XSLT: axes tests
- 30 April - Article: Adventures in Autoconfiscation - Part Two
- 30 April - Article: Adventures in Autoconfiscation - Part Three
- 30 April - Article: Adventures in Autoconfiscation
- 11 April - Talk: Find the Utility in a Java Iterator
- 22 March - Arabica: XSLT: Tests again
- 16 March - Mango: ReverseIterator
- 24 February - Arabica: XSLT: Tests
- 23 January - Arabica January 2007 Release
- 23 January - Arabica Builds
- 05 January - Arabica: XSLT: extension functions
- 02 January - Arabica: XSLT: Template priority
2006
- 22 December - Arabica: XSLT: Template matches
- 14 December - Arabica: DOM: TreeWalker
- 13 December - Arabica: Mingw MSYS builds
- 04 December - Arabica: XSLT: xsl:namespace-alias
- 24 November - Arabica
- 29 October - Arabica: XSLT: xsl:import and xsl:apply-imports
- 25 October - Arabica: XSLT: xsl:include
- 24 October - Arabica: SAX: LexicalHandler and DeclHandler
- 23 October - Arabica: XSLT: Run away from the hills! If you see hills, run the other way!
- 22 October - Arabica: XSLT: apply-templates mode
- 19 October - Arabica: XSLT: namespaces
- 18 October - Arabica: XSLT: inline elements
- 18 October - Arabica: XSLT: call-template
- 17 October - Arabica: XSLT: variable, param and with-param
- 13 October - New Mango Release
- 29 September - Mango Library
- 28 September - Mango Library
- 28 September - Arabica
- 27 September - XSLT Scrapbook: Pretty Printing
- 27 September - Arabica
- 25 September - Mango Library
- 23 September - Arabica: XSLT Development Branch
- 22 September - Mango Library
- 21 September - Arabica September 2006 Release 3
- 21 September - Mango Library
- 18 September - Arabica September 2006 Release 2
- 07 September - Arabica September 2006 Release
- 21 August - Arabica
- 07 August - Arabica: New Subversion repository
- 04 August - Building Arabica using Visual Studio 2003
- 04 August - Building Arabica on Ubuntu Linux 6.06
- 04 August - Arabica August 2006 Release
- 13 July - Arabica
- 14 June - Arabica: XPath Evaluation bug
- 23 May - XSLT Scrapbook: The default is probably not what you want
- 23 May - XSLT Scrapbook: Suppress Everything
- 01 May - Arabica: It's about time I dropped a release
- 19 April - Talk: XPath2, XSLT2, and XQuery
- 06 March - Arabica
- 11 January - Arabica
- 05 January - Arabica
2005
- 16 December - Arabica: When is an XPath expression not an XPath expression?
- 13 December - Arabica: \"Once you have an XPath engine, implementing XSLT is easy.\"
- 09 December - Arabica: String Pooling
- 08 December - Arabica: Wash your car, sir? Polish your shoes?
- 06 December - Arabica: See the problem?
- 25 November - Arabica: Node::purgeChild(Node& child)
- 25 November - Arabica: GCC 4.0.2 is Go!
- 11 November - Arabica: Dual Streaming/DOM XML processing
- 03 October - Arabica
- 03 October - Arabica
- 30 August - Arabica: DOM/Text node fixes
- 25 August - Arabica: DOM/utils/stream.h
- 23 August - Arabica
- 22 August - Arabica
- 21 August - Arabica
- 19 August - Arabica
- 19 August - Arabica
- 18 August - Arabica
- 17 August - Arabica
- 16 August - Arabica: Release updates
- 15 August - Arabica Aug-05 Release
- 15 August - Arabica Aug-05 known good builds
- 15 August - Arabica
- 09 August - Arabica
- 08 August - Arabica: XPath builds and runs using GCC 4.0.1
- 07 August - Arabica: XPath builds and runs using GCC 3.3.3
- 07 August - Arabica
- 06 August - Arabica
- 05 August - Arabica
- 04 August - Arabica: Moving toward a release
- 16 July - Arabica: XPath: union - all done
- 04 July - Arabica: XPath: union - nearly there
- 01 July - XSLT Scrapbook: Identity transform
- 23 June - Arabica: XPath: union
- 08 June - Arabica: XPath: namespace axis
- 05 June - Arabica: XPath: comparison operators
- 04 June - Arabica: XPath: variables returning node-sets
- 02 June - Arabica: XPath: relational operators
- 02 June - Arabica: XPath: document order
- 31 May - Arabica: XPath: node set functions
- 27 May - Arabica: XPath: string functions
- 26 May - Arabica: XPath: round() and sum()
- 24 May - Arabica: XPath: more functions and NaN
- 20 May - Arabica: XPath: boolean functions.
- 08 May - Arabica: XPath: unary minus
- 22 April - Talk: Paul and Jez's Stream-a-poloza
- 21 April - Talk: Unit Testing XSLT Stylesheets
- 13 April - Arabica: XPath: node set equality
- 08 April - Arabica: XPath: union expressions
- 02 April - Arabica: XPath : / and //
- 01 April - Arabica: XPath : preceding
- 31 March - Arabica: XPath : following
- 24 March - Arabica: XPath : descendant-or-self axis
- 23 March - Arabica: XPath : descendant axis
- 21 March - Arabica: SAX::ignorableWhitespace
- 02 March - A simple javax.xml.transform.URIResolver for hooking stuff out of the class path.
- 10 February - Arabica: XPath: more axes
- 01 February - Arabica: XPath: predicates again
- 21 January - Arabica: XPath: Logical operators
- 20 January - Arabica
- 19 January - Arabica
- 19 January - Arabica
- 11 January - Arabica: Variables in XPath expressions
2004
- 27 December - Arabica: /Happy/New/Year[2005]
- 10 December - Arabica: Milestone alert!
- 24 November - Arabica: Name tests
- 16 November - Arabica: XPath Node tests
- 15 November - Arabica: XPath commits
- 13 October - Arabica: Walking XPath Axes
- 13 October - Arabica: More compliance fixes committed
- 28 September - Arabica
- 10 September - Arabica
- 08 September - Mango: NullIterator
- 04 September - Arabica
- 05 August - Arabica
- 05 August - Arabica
- 30 July - Arabica
- 28 June - Arabica
- 28 May - Mango still lives.
- 27 May - Arabica
- 27 May - Arabica
- 19 May - Does Mango still live?
- 12 May - Arabica
- 11 May - Arabica: In which I complain about Oracle
- 10 May - Arabica
- 13 March - Arabica
- 26 February - Arabica Feb-04 release
- 19 February - Arabica: The XPath grammar is, modulo whitespace, complete.
- 18 February - Arabica
- 06 February - Arabica: TagSoup
- 28 January - Arabica
- 28 January - Arabica
- 08 January - Arabica: XPath support
- 06 January - Arabica
- 05 January - Arabica
- 04 January - Arabica Jan-04 release
2003
- 07 December - Arabica
- 07 December - Arabica
- 11 November - Arabica
- 10 November - Arabica
- 06 November - Arabica
- 29 October - Arabica
- 28 October - Arabica: Namespaces in the DOM
- 27 October - Arabica
- 27 October - Arabica
- 25 October - Arabica-Oct03 Release
- 22 October - Arabica
- 21 October - Arabica
- 21 October - Arabica
- 08 October - Arabica: New release available
- 03 October - Arabica
- 03 October - Arabica
- 02 October - Arabica
- 22 September - Arabica
- 14 September - Arabica
- 13 September - Arabica
- 12 September - Arabica
- 11 September - Arabica
- 10 September - Arabica
- 10 September - Arabica
- 10 September - Arabica
- 09 September - Arabica
- 08 September - Arabica
- 02 September - Arabica
- 29 August - Arabica
- 28 August - Arabica: SAX Writer too
- 28 August - Arabica: Commits! We have more commits!
- 27 August - Arabica: More commits
- 25 August - Arabica
- 13 August - Arabica
- 23 July - Arabica
- 18 July - Mango Library
- 15 July - Arabica
- 02 July - Arabica
- 08 April - Arabica
- 07 April - Arabica
- 04 April - Arabica
- 04 April - Arabica
- 04 April - Arabica
- 04 April - Arabica
- 03 April - Arabica
- 31 March - Mango Library
- 28 March - Mango Library
- 28 March - Mango Library
- 28 March - Mango Library
- 28 March - Mango Library
- 27 March - Arabica
- 27 March - Arabica
- 21 March - Arabica
- 21 March - Arabica
- 21 March - Arabica
- 20 March - Arabica
2002
- 19 September - Arabica
- 13 September - Arabica
- 04 September - Arabica Sept02 Release
- 04 September - Arabica
- 04 September - Arabica
- 03 September - Arabica
- 03 September - Arabica
- 03 September - Arabica
- 03 September - Arabica
- 02 September - Arabica
- 05 August - Mango Library
- 03 August - Arabica
- 31 July - Mango Library
- 27 July - Mango Library
- 12 July - Arabica
- 12 July - Arabica
- 27 June - Arabica
- 27 June - Arabica
- 21 June - Arabica
- 21 June - Arabica
- 20 June - Arabica
- 18 June - Arabica
- 13 June - Arabica
- 12 June - Mango Library
- 22 May - Arabica
- 22 May - Arabica
- 21 May - Arabica
- 21 May - Arabica
- 21 May - Arabica
- 20 May - Arabica
- 18 May - Arabica
- 16 May - Arabica
- 16 May - Arabica
- 16 May - Arabica
- 16 May - Arabica
- 16 May - Arabica
- 01 May - Arabica
- 18 April - Mango Library
- 17 April - Arabica
- 15 April - Arabica
- 15 April - Arabica
- 10 April - Mango Library
- 05 April - Arabica
- 04 March - Arabica
- 26 February - Arabica
- 26 February - Arabica
- 25 February - Arabica
- 25 February - Arabica
- 19 February - Arabica
- 19 February - Arabica
- 19 February - Arabica
- 18 February - Arabica
2001
- 17 December - Arabica
- 13 December - Arabica
- 13 December - Arabica
- 29 November - Arabica
- 14 November - Arabica
- 12 November - Arabica
- 08 November - Arabica
- 07 November - Arabica
- 06 November - Arabica
- 06 November - Arabica
- 06 November - Arabica
- 06 November - Arabica
- 05 November - Arabica
- 30 October - Arabica
- 30 October - Arabica
- 29 October - Arabica
- 18 October - Arabica
- 18 October - Arabica
- 18 October - Arabica
- 17 October - Arabica
- 17 October - Arabica
- 17 October - Arabica
- 16 October - Arabica
- 15 October - Arabica: New release.
- 15 October - Arabica
- 04 October - Arabica
- 03 October - Arabica
- 03 October - Arabica
- 02 October - Arabica
- 02 October - Arabica
- 13 September - Arabica
- 04 September - Arabica
- 17 August - Arabica
- 13 August - Arabica
- 09 August - Arabica
- 30 July - Arabica
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