Alex Elliott

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This is a list of some of the projects I'm currently working on, these are largely works in progress or works with continuing development. Browse through the list to see what I'm spending my time on at the moment.

Projects

Here are the projects I'm working on.

Expression Editor

ExpressionEditor is a Qt4 based application intended to help in testing and writing regular expressions (regexps). The application provides both text-based and graphical methods of editing regexps and will support PCRE, POSIX Extended and Qt4 format regexps. It is available under the terms of the GPLv3.0+.

Expression Editor Update (2)

Sun, 24 Jan 2010

Since I’ve had some more time to work on Expression Editor recently I thought it was about time I wrote another update for the progress of the project, and some related news that affects it. From Last Time… In the previous post I noted a few areas in progress and some that I wanted to look at [...]

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Expression Editor Update

Thu, 24 Dec 2009

A fair bit of progress has been made since my last blog entry so I thought I’d note a few things that have landed in the repository and a few things that I intend to add at a later date. Drag and Drop Initial support for drag and drop editing has been added. You can now re-order [...]

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A New Project

Mon, 07 Dec 2009

I have recently been working on a new project under the working title of “Expression editor”, an application which allows for easy editing of Regular Expressions (regexps) in a similar way to KDE3.x’s KRegExpEditor. I used to love KRegExpEditor for the incredibly useful functionality it provided, and in particular the visualisation of the regular expression [...]

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My Little FAQ For PHP Pitfalls

Fri, 06 Nov 2009

There are a few questions which come up time and time again in Zymic’s support channels (Zymic IRC, or the forums) and having answered them several times, I feel I would like to spend some time writing up a response which I hope can make handling these support queries a bit easier. So, ok, [...]

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