Ben Meadowcrofts Link Blog: July 2004

Hybrid SAX and DOM parsing

An interesting article exploring Hybrid SAX and DOM XML parsing. Promises to introduce the flexibility of DOM fragments coupled with the efficiency of SAX.

Java GUI Design fun.

Funny cartoon about Java GUI design via Java specialists news letter.

Why Web Forms 2.0 won't make a difference

Interesting article from Jim Ley on Why Web Forms 2.0 won't make a difference, via plattiblog. See WHAT WG for more info on Web Forms 2.0

Flash based XForms and SVG renderer

Deng is an interesting Flash application. It renders XML, XHTML, SVG and XForms, pretty sweet!

Tim Bray on web communication

Sun technical article on web communication with Tim Bray, the guy responsible for XML. I disagree with his comments on .Net though and think it is just a product of Sun "group think".

Run Firefox from a USB keyring

A few simple steps to make running Mozilla Firefox from removable media, such as a USB keyring, a doddle.

Tom Chi on Unix command line usability

Interesting article by Tom Chi compares Unix command line usability with learning to play the piano and makes a good defence of why the commandline has its place (from a uasability perspective).

MSDN gets kooky

After pointing to Suns "Inside Jack" cartoon the other day here's an interactive Microsoft "Poetry Jam", it's quite funny but still not as cool as Suns offering!

Dictionary of Alogorithms and Datastructures

The DADS is an interesting site, check out the travelling saleman algorithm. This links been sitting in my email for a few months so I'm not sure where I got it from.