http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/ by Rob Grzywinski en-us 2007-12-03T08:39:43-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000249.html One commonly used approach for measuring similarity between strings is the string edit distance. The basic premise of the string edit distance is to find the minimum number of character edit operations (copy, replace, add, and remove) needed to transform... Development rgrzywinski 2007-12-03T08:39:43-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000248.html In order to make template extraction as palatable as possible I am going to start by walking through how one discovers the templates used to generate a set of URLs. I'm going to use Amazon.com as an example. Search for... Development rgrzywinski 2007-11-30T07:13:12-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000247.html The goal of template extraction is to discover the template(s) (if there are any) used to generate a page. There are two major categories of templates: those that are used within a single web page (such as the individual search... Development rgrzywinski 2007-11-29T12:47:06-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000246.html With the recent movement towards mashups, the semantic web and market intelligence, there is a large need to get at the data and information that is stored in web pages. Data extraction startups are popping up like weeds (e.g. InfoSquire... Development rgrzywinski 2007-11-29T10:34:26-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000245.html I'm in the process of updating the blog template. Things will be a little goofy for a day or so.... General rgrzywinski 2007-11-28T11:09:28-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000244.html "Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve Software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose... Development rgrzywinski 2007-11-17T08:59:00-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000243.html I'm often asked why I don't hop on the lastest language bandwagon and just start coding up a storm. The answer comes in two parts: the first is that I do try out these languages to see what the hype... Programming rgrzywinski 2007-05-30T21:34:00-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000240.html I just stumbled on Live Clipboard and I'm sold. The screencasts are quite enlightening (though for type-A people like myself very painful to sit through). For interested parties, the discussion archives are located here rather than the broken link from... Development rgrzywinski 2007-02-08T08:46:07-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000239.html I don't know about the rest of you but my parents baffle me. When working with them on issues that crop up from time to time I try to view them as two average people so that I can be... General rgrzywinski 2007-01-23T09:09:46-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000238.html "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." Chinese Proverb, 2006... General rgrzywinski 2007-01-15T08:35:05-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000237.html Incompetent People Really Have No Clue is an old article but is just as relevant today as it was 7 years ago. My wife is a public high school science teacher and she will periodically ask the students to submit... Management rgrzywinski 2007-01-13T09:36:10-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000236.html I have been doing some research on the Enterprise 2.0 landscape and web mashup tools. I stumbled across Dapper and their demo videos. It would be an understatement to say that I was impressed with what I saw. I have... Development rgrzywinski 2006-12-18T09:21:33-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000235.html StreamCruncher is an Event Processor. It supports a language based on SQL which allows you to define Event Processing constructs like Sliding Windows, Time Based Windows, Partitions and Aggregates. Queries can be written using this language, which are used to... Development rgrzywinski 2006-12-15T07:08:52-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000234.html I refer you to binkley's BLOG for information regarding translating C/C++ code to Java.... Development rgrzywinski 2006-12-15T07:02:20-06:00 http://www.realityinteractive.com/rgrzywinski/archives/000232.html After two hard windows crashes and horrible performance enough was enough with FireFire 2.0. Rolling back to 1.5 was simple and neither my bookmarks nor my profile were lost. This link provided me with enough information to get the job... General rgrzywinski 2006-11-16T07:10:43-06:00