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The last assignment in CS I will deal with manipulating an iTunes listing. In some ways it is the standard stuff you do with a list of items/objects – Add, Delete, Sort, List. The wrinkle here is to transform the XML exported by iTunes to come up with a CSV list. Some resources follow.

• XML.com: Hacking iTunesBy Niel Bornstein
  November 03, 2004The iTunes music player and download service took the world by storm in 2003 and 2004, and promises to continue its popularity for the forseeable future. While the music is stored in simple files on disk, metadata -(tags: XML itunes)
• XSLT script to generate album listing from iTunes XML“When I got myself an iPod, I found the printed listings available from the iTunes program were not particularly great (despite the interactive interface being superb), and I couldn’t get a concise summary list of albums. “(tags: xml itunes)
• Java(TM) Boutique – Unweaving a Tangled Web With HTMLParser and Luceneby Keld H. Hansen
  IntroductionEver wanted to write a Java program that crawls the web? You know a program that reads HTML-pages, retrieves the links, gets the new pages–with more links and so on.”(tags: htmlparser lucene Web crawl links)

In the Research Methods class, some student have a need to scrape linls form a Web page. That’s where these favelts or bookmarklets com in.

• Accessibility-Checking Favelets – Little scripts that you can save to test for web accessibility | AccessifyTools, wizards, articles and tutorials on Web Accessibility for the conscientious web developer(tags: accessibility bookmarklets favelets)

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DoD Confirmation List

Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

That’s right, we’re thinking very seriously about getting a fireplace insert. Wood seems easy to come by and producing our own heat is very attractive.

• Wood Fireplace Insert and Hearth Stove Main Page Lots of good information about inserts, wood stoves, EPA regulations, and the like.  (tags: fireplace chimney)

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DoD Confirmation ListLatest Coalition Fatality: Nov 07, 2007

source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

• Java Practices: Fetch web page and header (tags: fetch web page header java)

• 5. Experimental Results (tags: sorting experiments algortihms)
• Run-Time Sorting Experiments (tags: sorting experiments)
• Sorting Algorithm Animations from Programming Pearls (tags: Sorting Algorithm Animations)
• CS202/ CSci202 Laboratory 07 Timing Sorting Algorithms (tags: timing sorting algorithms)
• Algorithms and Experiments
  The last twenty years have seen enormous progress in the design of algorithms, but little of it has been put into practice. Because many recently developed algorithms are hard to characterize theoretically and have large running-time coefficients, .. (tags: Algorithm engineering cache-aware algorithms efficiency experimental algorithmics)