Preserving our precious technical resources

Yesterday I was working on a project that relies heavily on regular expressions. I got to a point where I had to look something up, so I tried pulling up my favorite regex reference, A Tao of Regular Expressions. As you might have noticed, it’s no longer there.

So I Googled the title to see if there were any mirrors. It seems that a lot of people pointed to the page, but none of the top results contained the actual content. (PDFs don’t count. They suck.)

Since the page everyone links to was a copy of the original, I figured that no one would complain if I made a copy of the copy. So I grabbed a copy of the page from Google’s cache and posted it on my site.