February 2012
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Thread Safe libxml2 for iOS
My self-built framework for accessing Last.fm data does a lot of XML-parsing. I could have chosen for JSON, I guess, but I started of with XML and somehow stuck with it because changing it over seems like a waste of time to me.
That is, if my XML parsing is fast enough. With the successor of Last Concerts comes even more data fetching from Last.fm and thus more data parsing, and so performance...
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Fosdem 2012
Every year I find enough reasons to take out a chunk of my valuable time and get my butt over to Brussels to attend some talks at FOSDEM. This time it was the talk about how to implement domain-specific languages with LLVM that got me interested the most. LLVM is one of the most interesting open source projects to me and this talk did not disappoint: technical enough but not over my head, and with...