I’ve worked on several new and different things since July, and all thanks to my new job. Say “hooray” with me… Hooray! Luckily I recently got to do some compiler-style expression parsing. Not sure whether it’s my 100% favorite brand of problem to solve, but anything compiler-related is very, very near the top of my list. We’re working on a jQuery plugin that I won’t share the details of yet, but the API contains a way to filter data using string matching expressions.
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