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Ben McCann

Co-founder at Connectifier.
ex-Googler. CMU alum.

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March 2008

HTML Parsing using the Firefox DLLs

03/21/2008

One of my first posts was a comparison of HTML parsers. Today I found a particularly challenging document to parse. None of the parsers I had compared earlier were able to handle the malformed HTML in this table where the td elements were prematurely ended. The behavior of Neko and HtmlCleaner made the most sense Read More

Wuala Invites Available

03/15/2008

Wuala is a p2p backup and remote storage service.  It gives you 1GB of backup space for free and more when you share disk space with others.  If you have a large amount of data or multimedia to backup then this is a much cheaper alternative to services such as Mozy.  All your data is Read More

Change the NetBeans Default JDK

03/04/2008

A client sent me some code today to update. He was using the NetBeans, so I downloaded the IDE and fired it up to open the project he’d sent me. Unfortunately, the project wouldn’t compile because he’d written the code in Java 6 while NetBeans was using Java 5. I couldn’t find a NetBeans menu Read More