Computer programmers often use parsing programs to convert text into formats that other applications can use. Parsers split items in a text string into separate fields. If, for example, you have a ...

Nancy Maple had spent mere minutes in the Crimson Lodge before I got her killed in The Crimson Diamond. The amateur mineralogist — on an errand with the Royal Canadian Museum, where she works as a ...

(tl;dr: How to design an object oriented log file parser. Not exactly, but close enough) First off, this has nothing to do with networking. My example matches my data format without me needing to ...

XML has become the standard technology in information exchange, but many applications still use more primitive ways to import and export data. One such technique is based on text files containing ...

PC gamers, especially us old-timers, often raise the question, ‘Why don’t game developers make X anymore?’ The common answer is, ‘You only think you want X because you don’t remember how bad X was.’ ...

One of the great things about being a book and magazine writer and the founder of a Web site is that I can keep myself in touch with thousands of developers. And even when I don't receive e-mails, I ...