using regular expressions

I love WordPress. I also love clean semantic html. Unfortunately, several of the standard WordPress theme functions return code that is a little untidy.

For me, the primary culprits are wp_list_pages() and the newer wp_nav_menu(); both return an unordered list of page links typically used for page menus and sitemaps, e.g.,

Tip of the Trade: "In a recent article I wrote about using regular expressions in editors, I mentioned the fact that by default, Emacs will match newlines when using a complemented character set, and vim won't.

A helpful reader, Tim Chase, contacted me to share a way around this."

Evan Light has recently pushed his Coulda project to Github - it's a test framework based on Test::Unit, inspired by Cucumber, Shoulda and Thor.

John Resig (of jQuery fame) has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript.

The examples are remarkable, check them out (but check the browser issues John discusses).

John has a little confession:

The first portion of the project was writing a parser to dynamically convert code written in the Processing language, to JavaScript.