In the early days of gaming, text parsers were everywhere. The Zork series used typed commands to explore dangerous dungeons, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game was just as cleverly written ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Nancy Maple had spent mere minutes in the Crimson Lodge before I got her killed in The Crimson Diamond. The amateur mineralogist — on an errand with the Royal Canadian Museum, where she works as a ...

XML has become the standard technology in information exchange, but many applications still use more primitive ways to import and export data. One such technique is based on text files containing ...

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Adventure Call takes the text-based RPGs of yore and puts a live narrator in the place of a text parser. If you’ve never seen a call-in game show, you’re probably not missing much. If there were one ...