Author Archives: porton

The anti-rating of people causing the most technological damage

Posted on July 20, 2019

This is the rating of the worst engineer decisions causing the most damage to the civilization. The 1 st place. Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. Estimated amount of damage: $50 trillion. What they did: They invented C programming … Continue reading →

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XML Boiler (Automatic transformation of XML namespaces) is released

Posted on August 22, 2018

I am happy to announce the first release (v0.1.0) of XML Boiler (Automatic transformation of XML namespaces) software. This release is alpha. But it seems to be already useful. For example, the documentation of XML Boiler is built using XML Boiler itself. … Continue reading →

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XML Boiler project reached an important milestone

Posted on August 1, 2018

XML Boiler project reached an important milestone: To make the first release it remains to debug it. (Also need to create particular XML processing scripts to make it useful.) XML Boiler is the implementation of my Automatic transformation of XML namespaces … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 24, 2018

Dear Martin, This is a letter to Martin Fowler, which I also publish in my blog. I am rather wondered why you don’t do any mention in your article https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html about the following problem: Real classes which use dependency injection … Continue reading →

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Finished translation of namespace transformer to Python

Posted on February 15, 2018

I originally started to write my XML Boiler software in Ada. Ada compiler has too many bugs. I switched to Java. I discovered for myself that Java byte arrays are limited to about 4GB of bytes, this makes problematic processing … Continue reading →

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Library to spawn a process with given input and receive its output

Posted on January 25, 2018

I have created a C library to span a process with given input and receive its output. One cannot just write to stdin of a process and then read its stdout through pipes, because this way it may lead to a … Continue reading →

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A new problem appeared writing automatic XML transformations

Posted on October 28, 2017

This is about Automatic transformation of XML namespaces. Previously I divided all transformations into two groups: with a given source and target namespace (as converting DocBook into HTML); with only source given but not the target (as for XInclude). Today … Continue reading →

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