Dilshan R Jayakody’s Web Log

Intel HEX is an open file format to save machine code data. Today lot of compilers and EEPROM/Microcontroller programmers support for this file format as de facto standard. hex2file is a lightweight, command-line driven application to view and convert Intel HEX files into other file formats. I developed this application as a supporting utility for our on-going compiler/virtual machine projects. This utility supports four output formats which include CSV, plain- text, binary and numerical-text. hex2file standard numerical output in screen mode hex2file is an open source - free software and its available for both Linux and Windows operating systems. The latest version of hex2file utility is available to download at sourceforge.net – hex2file project page . The more details including project documentation are available at hex2file.sourceforge.net .

nanoide is an effort to build scriptable build tool with source code editor. Initially I developed this tool to test some of my ongoing compiler projects and later I extend it with source code editors and with simple UI. nanoide build 138 with sample build script nanoide build system is based on FreePascal style scripting system and it comes with more than 50 inbuilt support functions . With help of nanoide, users can create complex conditional build flows and it helps to automate system testing processes also. Current version (build 145) of nanoide editor support C/C++, Java, Pascal/Delphi/Lazarus, Python, HTML, XML, CSS, Perl, Basic/Visual Basic, SQL, Tex, DOS batch scripts and UNIX\Linux shell scripting. nanoide is developed using Lazarus and it can be compiled and execute on Windows, Linux and Mac OS platforms. Virtually nanoide is compatible with any command line-driven compiler and it is tested with TinyC Compiler , Lua , Python , FPC and with PHP .  ...

Sudoku is one of my favorite games and in this project we developed small computer program to play and solve Sudoku puzzles in Microsoft Windows operating systems. Like all of my other computer programs this project is also hosted in sourceforge.net with open source – free software license (Under the terms and conditions of GNU General Public License Version 3 ). This project is developed using Borland C++ and it had following general features, Sudoku Game Panel with multiple user profiles Support custom board styles Auto-play options for all the predefine and user specified puzzles Minimize to tray option Three game play levels (as easy, intermediate and hard) Easy to add any number of custom puzzles Latest version of Mini Sudoku is available to download at minisudoku.sourceforge.net and at Mini Sudoku Ohloh project page . To modify this project user need to use Borland C++Builder 6, NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Installer) and Adobe Photoshop (or any other image editor which is capabl...

I’m trying Delphi for PHP 2.0 in few days back and I'm get very frustrated about it because of its pour implementation and technologies. Some key failures in Delphi for PHP 2.0 are, - IDE is very buggy and most of the times it produces "Access Violation" errors and IDE get confused. (In my computer Delphi 7 tries to debug it.) - Help is very pour and incomplete. - JavaScript and PHP integration is very complex and buggy. Most of the time JavaScript codes may not work in client side and it is heavily depends on the web browser. - Some times it is necessary to deploy entire "VCL" directory to the web server otherwise some of the VCL components produces invalid outputs. (specially RichEdit and TrackBar components) - MySQL integration is pour and buggy. - Build-in Apache web server crash several times and because of that reason we may not be able to debug/run web application using IDE. - Some times XML file (xml.php) generated by Form Designer may not compatible wit...