After conquering IP-MIB, I suddenly found the simple parser powerful enough to parse more files. And in one hour this morning, I got another 26 files parsed. Cool! Hope I can parse the other 35 so...
#SNMP Design: 35 Files, Half Done
#SNMP Design: IP-MIB Monster
It is really a challenge to parse IP-MIB. Why? This file contains 185,928 bytes so a lot of definitions. Therefore, after parsing this file, I got 293 more nodes in the MIB tree. A few issues wer...
Sandcastle Puzzle: Source Code Closed
I was happy to see Microsoft hosted Sandcastle on CodePlex.com. I believed once this half baked NDoc alternative got open source, .NET developers could enjoy happiness that NDoc was bringing in the...
#SNMP Design: Half Baking Done
After a month, it is time to publish a release of #SNMP to public. So you can now find the Halfbaked (0.5) release here. I didn’t notice I have already done most 0.9 release goals in this very fir...
#SNMP Design: Halfbaked Update
I was out of luck. Last weekend I joined an offsite meeting and had my left elbow badly hurt. And last night I got a fever. My bad luck had big impact on #SNMP. Even though I had already frozen th...
CodeGear Merged into Embarcadero
Farewell Borland, though I am wearing a Borland T-Shirt today. It feels rather complicated and I guess many people feel the same. Finally CodeGear leaves Borland and becomes private as people expe...
#SNMP Design: 3 MIB Files More
After reading Wikipedia, I kind of understand what is a yylexer. However, I am still going on my own lexer. I am sure if I keep refactoring down the road, I may achieve something similar to a stand...
#SNMP Design: Build My Own Lexer
Suddenly I found that MIB support is much harder than other parts. Why? You cannot imagine parsing binary data looks so easy right now. According to Essential SNMP, MIB files are ASN.1 format text...