DOS wildcards to Ruby regexs

Ever needed to convert a DOS wildcard like "?WIN*.EXE" to a regex for evaluation? If so here's little Ruby code snippet:

class Regexp
   def self.from_wildcard(wildcard, options = '')
      /^#{wildcard.gsub(/[\.\*\?]/) { |m| { '.' => '\.', '*' => '.*', '?' => '.' }[m] }}$/#{options}
   end
end

Here's the usage and result:

puts Regexp::from_wildcard "?WIN*.EXE"

=> (?-mix:^.WIN.*\.EXE$)

"AWINNER.EXE".match(Regexp::from_wildcard "?win*.exe", 'i')

=> #(matchdata "AWINNER.EXE")

Have fun! ;)


Online Petition

Acordo Ortográfico

Comprei o meu primeiro livro editado com o novo acordo ortográfico e... pelos vistos vai ser o último: Egipto escrito Egito?!?!? Opah, eu digo Egipto com 'P'. Parece que tou a ler um livro em brasileiro. Mais vale comprar livros nas versões originais e fica muito mais barato. Nunca comprei um livro em brasileiro e nunca mais vou comprar um livro em português. Isto é uma vergonha.

Para comprar livros escritos decentemente usem:

http://amazon.co.uk
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk

:)

HOLIDAYS!!!!

And they started very well. I lost my mind and bought Guitar Hero IV for the PC. It's actually quite addicting, but I would prefer a greater Metal selection to play from. I just hope they'll release Guitar Hero V for the PC. Children of Bodom, Dragonforce, Iron Maiden... playing those must be much more fun. :p

Well, being at home is no fun right now :D

Vista Wireless Problems

If your wireless adapter is always disconnecting, while using Windows Vista, don't do like me and buy another one :p, use this program instead and disable the power-saving mode for the wireless adapter:

http://www.martin-majowski.de/wlanoptimizer/downloads.php

"As long as I fly..."

"...I sure cannot die
I don´t need to hear the call
As Long As I Fall"

Windows 7 is a bomb

Literally!!!

It's actually faster and cleaner than Vista. But, 4h after I installed it its main partition became corrupted and never recovered even though Chkdsk seems to think it can solve the problems and runs in an infinite "repair, reboot" loop. Well, I'll stick with XP and Ubuntu for now. :p

What's the meaning of life?

...

Beats me!!! :D

But live for the good of others and rely only upon yourself for feeling well... that should keep you happy. ;)

Drop me a comment...

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...if you can read this! ;)

Just to see if anyone actually reads my crap :D

King of Fools

Dedicated to some people I know... ;)



"You feel at ease as you flock with the masses,
What do you see with your heads in their asses?
Keep on railing at what I believe ,
Call me insane and I am proud to be.

And I walk the wicked way!"

The Phoenix Scorpio...

It's me!!! :D

Well, the news:

I broke up with my girlfriend, a 3 year relationship, which was at the time very painful, but now I know it was the best for us both. My life has turned 180º and has become in some places chaotic but that is so much fun, not knowing what's next and being able to change every time and cope with it in peace and tranquility... :)

Speaking of fun. I'm having lots of it!!! I hadn't had so much fun in ages. :D I'm finally fully recovered from my illness and since I could overcome that, I feel like I can overcome pretty much anything life throws at me. :) And life is so much fun and invigorating when we are at peace with ourselves and others... and choose to actually pay more attention to the path than to the goals. :)

I'm more energetic, calm and full of life than ever before and look forward to the future... alone for the time being, which feels actually pretty good, and hopefully with my unknown soulmate in due time... ;)

Renascer...

Quem disse que eu ia morrer aos 27 devia estar certo, porque sinto-me como tal. Ao menos vou renascer para (espero eu) um futuro melhor...

Some news...

Well, first my head is a mess. :D My room is also a mess. I just stopped having enough space for all my stuff.

Ines' head is a mess also and our relationship is sailing through troubled waters.

My job is also a mess. :D Everything is a mess. Well, I guess you get what you subconsciously wish for. :P A quiet, banal life wouldn't be any fun, now would it?!

On a happier note:

I started programming Aurora, an Neural Network artificial intelligence. I'm still working out the details, but I've been studying neurology reports and am aiming to make the best human brain simulation model I can. My first goal is to have her learn portuguese and if she can do that, the sky is the limit!!! (Well, actually the amount of RAM and processing power is the limit ;))

TranShape is shaping up great (pardon the pun). Just a few more weeks with a little spare time to have it show it's stuff.

Something to relax :D

Because this blog has been a bit in a sad mood lately let's bring happiness and fun to it :D

Honesty hurts...

...but it is better to live in painful knowledge than in blissful ignorance.

My suggestion for the day :)

Nothing is impossible until you believe it's impossible :) so, go ahead and follow your dreams :)

Facelift...

A snapshot of my life...

Well, let's see...

I asked a friend of mine if she was well and she didn't answer for a few days even though she could. That's very mean and at first got me angry, but now I really don't care. Karma will deal with her. She's obviously still a child in mind, so I've just blocked her on MSN... :)

At work, well... my bosses actually included me in a project of web programming. Web programming as practically everyone knows is the only type of programming I hate. Furthermore, they are taking measures to ensure everyone is stressed out, because, as one of them puts it: "Stress encourages productivity, relaxation creativity". Well, they obviously don't know the best companies in the planet are the creative ones, not exactly the most productive ones. I could have a factory of shoes and hire "slave labor". They would be productive as hell, but the company would be just another subpar one.
Since I'm growing more and more weary, I'm moving to work elsewhere in Europe. I just feel sad that Nes will be probably away from me for 3 years, but it will be good for both our lifes.

TranShape is coming along very well. It's now more modular and manageable. I foresee a great financial feature for its technologies. Now, I've only got to find some partners to sell it. :) (No, not my company, they're too narrow minded to ever become successful. And they live in a different world than their employees. Maybe a major in psychology would do them well :D).

Lost and found

I feel I've found something in myself I had lost a long time ago... :)

Life sometimes is unfair...

I know that I live to learn and evolve, but sometimes lessons in life can be so painful.
Why couldn't everything in life be a sea of roses? Maybe because that way we wouldn't learn anything... the worst thing we can do is to try to control our thoughts, our emotions, our feelings... if we try to do that we are forever controlled by them and worse, we are controlled by the fear of having them. And the problem about emotions is that they come unwarned and when we discover them it's too late.


It is so unfair when we get hurt by something completely out of our reach. We try to do good and we get stung...
I've lived so many years, I was supposed to be immune to that. But I'm not. I suffer and hurt just like anyone else.
Well, there's no point in being down. There's no time to feel down. All life keeps going towards its end and renewal. Each second we feel sad is a second we could be doing something good.

Like an old saying goes: "Worse than a bad person doing evil, is a good person not doing good.".

New meaner predictor... :D

Well, a new predictor is ready. This one does about 1250000000 pattern checks (as opposed to last week's that did about 8000000 checks).

Well, the numbers it predicted as most probable for last week were 9 28 42 46 13 + 1 2

It would have guessed 9 13 + 1 2 (27€). It's a shame it wasn't ready yet. :(

Well, there remain only a few issues to solve and then it's time to optimize it to StreamSDK. :D