Alberto Demchelis weblog

Squirrel 2.1.2 stable

Alberto — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:36:06

A new version of Squirrel is out. Minor bug fixes and some few new refinements. Check it out. If everthing goes well, this should be the last 2.x release. So I can start start to work on Squirrel 3.x.

Squirrel 2.1.1 stable

Alberto — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:59:37

I've just released a new version of my pet language Squirrel. There are several minor bug fixes; Check it out.

Squirrel 2.1 stable

Alberto — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:45:01

I've just released a new version of my pet language Squirrel. There are several minor bug fixes and a bounch of new stuff; Check it out.

I'm back

Alberto — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:35:45

I'm back home. From now on, if I do not reply to your e-mails is because hate you :) .

I'm in Italy

Alberto — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:40:36

For 2 weeks I'll be back to Italy visiting my family. I wont be online very often. So if I'm not very responsive with my emails etc... Is not because I hate you :)

Squirrel 2.0.4 stable

Alberto — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:14:35

A new Squirrel release is out. The main thing is that adds weak references to the language, plus some bug fixes. enjoy it.

I'm in LA

Alberto — Sun, 15 May 2005 09:31:56

Form today until Friday I'll be in Los Angeles because of E3 and related activities. I'll probably wont be very responsive on email etc...(I'm not gonna bring my lappy).

My site is gone

Alberto — Mon, 02 May 2005 17:33:16

LOL, Today for some reason seems that my ISP decided to wipe out my homepage. The only thing left was my Blog DB ...actually a 1 year old backup of it. Awesome. I think someone there accidentally fu#@ed it up. No biggie, but I'm glad nobody felt like telling me anything, barf.

Squirrel 1.0 beta 3 released

Alberto — Sun, 23 May 2004 19:28:53

I've just released a new version of my pet language Squirrel. There are several minor bug fixes and a bounch of new stuff; expecially in the standard libraries. Now Squirrel comes with a full featured regular expression engine. Check it out.

I'm lagged

Alberto — Sun, 16 May 2004 00:23:30

I haven't posted anything for a while. Last week I've been in Motreal(Canada). I've been able to enjoy the beauty of 12h time shift plus two 40h trips in less than a week. Because of that I've been heavily jet-lagged in the past days. If you haven't received an answer to you emails yet you will soon.

A story on MS Word

Alberto — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:19:20

Chris Pratley blogs on how MS Word became the lead product in the word processors market.I found the story fascinating. It shows how MS manage to wipes out competitors.

A book on programmers

Alberto — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 15:43:21

Bob Reselman wrote a book on the life of a programmer. is called Coding slave. Look very interesing to me, I'm going to order it.

Squirrel forum

Alberto — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:18:29

A guy gave me the idea for opening a public web-based forum on squirrel's homepage. I did; was quick and painless. The forum is here.

Squirrel 1.0 beta 2 released

Alberto — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:19:59

I've just released a new version of my embeddable programming language squirrel.

40 years of Nutella

Alberto — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:25:40

Nutella is celebrating its 40 years. In Turin, my home town and nutella's home as well, a huge "nutella party" is taking place lol...and I'm missing it. (BTW if you are not living on this planet, nutella is a very famous nut cream, almost an institution for italy and many other conutries). Nutella rocks.

Check your english grammar skills

Alberto — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 21:20:40

check you grammar...I'm a Master.

How search engines work

Alberto — Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:43:09

I bumped in this very interesting interview that outlines how search engines work.

Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003

Alberto — Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:38:22

Microsoft just released is C++ compiler for free. Looks like is the same compiler included in VS.NET, so is pretty damn good. I must admit I din't expect that, but if you think, they give away the C# compiler for free and this C++ compiler is probably the only tool that can produce managed C++ that I'm aware of. It make sense. Still without VS is just a very good C++ compiler, good for people that develop multiplatform apps for sure.

XFS a file system for the GBA

Alberto — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 23:04:56

I've released a simple utility I wrote in a couple of hours to have a file system on the GBA. The code you have to link is very small and works quite well(both emulated and on real HW). If you develop for the GBA check the projects section.

Channel 9

Alberto — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:30:34

I just subscribed to channel9. Microsoft developers are opening up to the masses, so if you like and expecially if you dislike MS products go directly there and complain/suggest/ask. Is actually an interesting way to do software, probably the right one. If I think how normally applications are developed, sounds crazy; a company spends a cetain amount of time creating something behind closed doors, releases it and looks at the complains after the sw is released. I think having a feedback ideas while the thing is still under construction makes perferctly sense.