TECHCoffee Regular
March 19, 2008I was pretty excited a few weeks ago when TECHCoffee announced Season 5. It’s an early morning coding meet-up billed as the hacking equivalent of a running club, with the assumption that a couple of productive early morning hours a week can make the difference in that project you’re too tired to work on at night.
It was a timely announcement for me because I wanted to devote some time to a small project that wasn’t getting anywhere. So far so good; I’ve been a regular every week (although admittedly I’m not usually there by the 6:30 AM start time).
I’m working on a Java parser for a hated, ancient banking file format, BAI2, that I’ve had the displeasure of working with a few times in my day job. It’s not a sexy project, but I will open-source it as soon as it’s functional in the hopes of saving the next poor slob who has to parse BAI2 from some major headaches. I also want a more flexible parser to work with in case that next poor slob turns out to be me.
The only problem with TECHCoffee is figuring out what beverage to purchase from our coffee shop host since I gave up caffeine completely a while ago.
I saw you were working on a BAI2 parser in Java. I am about to assign a project to develop and implement a BAI2 parser in Java and was wondering if you would like to collaborate or if you have open sourced your component yet.
Thanks
Have you abandoned this project? Please give us a status update – I might be able to contribute.
Daniel,
I changed jobs shortly after starting work on the parser, and consequently no longer had a need for it. I’m afraid I didn’t get far enough to publish any code.