Long story short: my second HD died on me in as many months, due to a weird problem with my particular combination of mobo & HD type. File recovery is semi-possible, by the rather roundabout way of using an NTFS-to-FAT low-level file copier, and then back to NTFS in windows.
However that has the rather unfortunate side effect of truncating all my filenames to 8.3 format. I can manually convert most back, but I''ve got lots (100+) of Java source files that need renaming. For anyone that doesn''t know, Java source files have a strict path & naming convention - they must be named the same as the public class they contain, and the directory structure mimics the package (namespace) declaration. So all the information needed for a rename is sitting in the files themselves!
I could probably do it without too much hastle in C++ or Java, but I decided to take the oppertunity to try some other higher level language. I''m thinking either Python (''cos I''ve been meaning to look into it for ages) or PHP (since I''m planning some PHP web stuff at some point).
Does anyone have any recommendations to one or the other to try? Perhaps another language that would be easier to do this in? And any handy IDE type stuff as well would be appreciated. Thanks.
