from the Jargon File:
haque /hak/ n. Variant spelling of hack, used only for the noun form, and connoting an elegant hack, that is a hack in sense 2.
hack /hak/ 2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed.
Okay, maybe not everything I do deserves to be called a haque, but I hope some of it is useful anyway!
Software
I am a dedicated user of and advocate for free (libre) software. I regularly contribute bug fixes and new features to packages that I use, and listed here are a few software bundles of my own.
- RNGzip — type-based XML compression. The code from my research paper in DCC07. It uses the Relax NG schema to substantially compress conforming XML documents, especially ones that are more data-oriented (taggy).
- MetaOCaml Server Pages — web publishing as staged computation. The code from my research paper of the same name.
- QCheck/SML — automatic unit testing for Standard ML, modeled after QuickCheck for Haskell (by Claessen and Hughes).
- LZMA Streams in Java — LZMA is the compression technique used in the 7-Zip archiver. This provides a thin layer over the LZMA Java SDK to support transparent compression of Java input/output streams.
- liu-calendar.el encodes my academic calendar, for use with Emacs.
- nws-diary is a simple Perl script that fetches forecasts from the National Weather Service (US only) and formats them for inclusion in your Emacs diary. (Screenshot, 23k)
- TeX support for the FontSite 500 CD
- Scotland Yard, an historical look at an undergraduate programming project.
Some other things, to be released in the fullness of time (ask if you're curious):
- AI code
- toxotool?
- phodb and photo hacks on wordpress
- metrictime
- latex classes
- ATC expert for Adobe Type Classics CD
- dot files (u/etc) ??
