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Linked List: July 23, 2006

Sunday, 23 July 2006

Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition ★

A new edition of Jeffrey Friedl’s masterpiece hits bookstores next month:

This third edition is 58 pages longer than the second edition, and now reaches 542 pages in length. The main changes from the second edition are a new, 48-page chapter on PHP, and a rewritten/expanded Java chapter taking into account the many java.util.regex changes between Java 1.4 and Java 1.5/Java 1.6.

I’ve read the first two editions cover-to-cover.

Free WWDC ★

John Siracusa:

Why does Apple jealously guard the content presented at WWDC? […] It’s foolish not to provide this information to everyone who wants it, free of charge (provided they agree to an NDA, yada yada; all ADC members already do). Apple should be encouraging development on its platform, not arbitrarily withholding information from developers.