For the first time : a post from a guest blogger, Simon Hénault.  Have a good reading! Still today, most people on LinkedIn are there because they received many invitations.  They then decided to join the wave and dropped their resume, then wait.  That’s sad, since LinkedIn offer many benefits, for free : External communication [...]

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Parsing (X)HTML in C is often seen as a difficult task.  It’s true that C isn’t the easiest language to use to develop a parser.  Fortunately, libxml2′s HTMLParser module come to the rescue.  So, as promised, here’s a small tutorial explaining how to use libxml2′s HTMLParser to parse (X)HTML. First, you need to create a [...]

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The Web Startup Success Guide by Bob Walsh (of 47 hats) is really an interesting book.  And I want to start by saying that even if you don’t want to start a business, go read that book.  There’s a lot of information in there for every software developer.  Topics like customer support, social media, personal [...]

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Recently, I had to build an (X)HTML parser in C.  Instead of re-inventing the wheel, I looked at what already existed.  There seems to be only 3 possibilities : libxml2′s HTMLparser libwww HTML Tidy After a quick look around, it seems as if libwww hasn’t been updated since 2002.  As for HTML Tidy, it doesn’t [...]

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