grack.com

UPDATE (July 7, 2010) Daniel Herding sent me a story about his adventures with Avira’s latest version. Looks like they’ve just paved over the problem.

We’ve been seeing a number of reports that our DotSpots Chrome extension is being reported as infected with the HTML/Crypted.Gen malware. There’s not a lot of information on Avira’s site about this malware, except that it’s a ‘trojan’ with ‘low damage potential’.

Looking back through the archive.org history of grack.com, I realized that I’ve used three off-the-shelf products to blog over the last decade: CityDesk, Typo (a Ruby blog engine) and Wordpress.

My favorite of the three was CityDesk. It was a very simple CMS with a decent custom scripting engine. Its big disadvantages were 1) that its data was stored in a Microsoft Access database 2) its data was basically a big binary blob that didn’t work well at all with source control, 3) I couldn’t push stuff into it from the command-line (ie: various testing snippets that I like to save) and 4) the scripting language was too limited at times to do what I wanted.

I’ve been searching for a complete EBNF for XML 1.1 without much success. I found one for XML 1.0, but I was hoping to avoid manually patching it for the XML 1.1 changes.

In the end, I decided that it would be easiest to just parse the EBNF directly out of the specification. Here it is, for reference: