I found html parser comparison in a comment while reading tagsoup being used from groovy
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html parser comparison
Freitag, Februar 4th, 2011Code Splitting for Network-Bound Web 2.0 Applications
Dienstag, September 22nd, 2009Ajax apps provides us with rich and responsive user interfaces. And aside all code reductions modern frameworks provide, if you use firebug or fiddler or tamperdata one easily thinks about further optimization. Microsoft research has researched this topic and created Doloto. Take a look at their paper and of course at the tool itself and yes, you need windows for it, but i still like the paper 
PhoneGap
Montag, April 27th, 2009PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript. W3C has specified the API’s and Events. I think widgets will definitly become one of the next big things in mobile development. A widget is essential a zipped website. the creator takes the html file including css javascript and images, zips it together and adds the .wgt extension. The benefit is, that it will be only loaded once. needed data is fetched via ajax. unfortunatly we aren’t at the point that the widget toolkits are fully compatible, but I gues this is just a matter of time. Until we reach this point, phonegap is defintly an alternative to start with as it currently covers iphone,android and (limited) blackberry. And I’m confident, other will follow…
camstudio and Michael Wesch
Dienstag, November 18th, 2008After looking at some videos created by Michael Wesch, I realized Camstudio, which he apperently used for creating those. Wesch researches new ways of teaching using Web (2.0) technologies. actually he is a cultural anthropologist and media ecologist exploring the impacts of new media on human interaction, but I’m pretty sure that I can’t remember those terms tomorrow:-). pretty cool, also take a look at his blog. I also liked another guy mentioning, that he thinks this camstudio recordings are tomorrow’s PPT’s
XMPP news
Montag, September 22nd, 2008Cisco announced that they will aquire jabber Inc. Jabber which was the protocol name before it was adopted by the IETF as XMPP (extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), is an open XML technology for real-time communication. Due to it’s open nature you find different (and many OSS) implementations for various clients and servers. I follow from time to time the progress of ejabberd, but it really depends what you have already in your environment established, so it worthwhile to take a look at metajacks article and the answers. the statement about being a memory hog seems to be much better with the recent versions. a worthwhile read about mcroblogging integration is again by Jack Moffit
ultra slim e-paper
Samstag, September 13th, 2008now look at this from Plasticlogic and wait for first half of 2009.
Energy superstore
Montag, September 1st, 2008The Energy superstore is a green blog, which I hope will grow with a lot of useful hints about possibilities for saving our limited ressources. I found them via the doFollowers, a new (beta) directory site. They apply a voting concept with a fresh style of presenting blogs. That said, I don’t see a real value for the premium service, at least at the moment, but wish both the best.
Latency
Donnerstag, August 28th, 2008Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales – How to Crush it. Todd Hoff has created a good collection about various topics and links around this issue. By reading the next entry by the author, I got also aware that the Computer Communication Review is also online. How could we live without the web 
Understanding Individual Human Mobility Patterns
Samstag, August 2nd, 2008Barabasilab offers a couple of reserach papers about analyzing complex networks. One recent with the above title uses (anonymous) communication data collected about a years period. A similar approach is taken by the senseable lab of MIT. Even I support and like to read those research, I wonder when equal tools are applied to data with links back to the actual persons data. There exist similar for fun projects for money. wheresisgeorge is a US$$ tracker and provides a list of links to other currency trackers
crowdsourced tablet PC
Dienstag, Juli 22nd, 2008I’ll put this definitly on my watchlist. NOt familar with crowdsourcing? Here is a blog about it and here is a nice writeup about topcoders in the recent management lab issue which follows a similar idea