This is a blog, a collection of articles, some software projects, some miscellaneous scripts, a kitchen sink... I hope you'll find something useful or interesting.
Over the last few years a growing number of applications and services have been using a type of text mark-up known as XML. The structure of XML, and the timing of its introduction, made it a perfect match for the new (at that time) and fast growing language Java. However, its use in C++ has lagged behind somewhat, and this series of articles is aimed at redressing the balance a little.
In this article I will provide some background to character sets and character encodings. The focus is on what is needed to work with XML parsers, as a preliminary to further articles in the series. For this reason there are some areas (glyphs and representation for example) that have not been covered.
SnipSrv is a small PHP script to extract a piece of text from a file (which I assume is a quote, but could be anything) and return it. You’ll find it on its own page here.
I’ve added a slab of articles related to running a website on Westhost (where we are hosted). They’ve been through a hard patch recently with a rather, er, rough upgrade and the forums there have been buzzing with people trying to keep their systems going. A lot of good ideas put out, and I’ve collected some of them here.
Check out the Westhost Tips and Tricks pages.
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