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Generating XML With Genx
Genx is a software library written in the C programming language. You can use it to generate XML output, suitable for saving into a file or sending in a message to another computer program.
Apple pays off $300M in debt, becomes debt free | MacNN News
Steve Jobs: “Apple is now a debt-free company — for the first time in over a decade! It sure feels good.”
Sam Ruby: FeedValidator updates
11 bugs, 4 patches, 1 feature, and 12 messages to the mailing list. All resolved.
How to never lose Pepsi’s iTunes giveaway
“Pepsi has stated they believe they will have to pay for about 1/3 of the 100 million songs it’s giving away. That means 2/3 of the people that win don’t care about iTunes. So I say, let’s let them have the unlucky caps.”
Feed Parser 3.0 beta 18 is out.
libxml2 if available. Libxml2 uses libiconv to convert between a large number of character encodings, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean encodings. The upshot of this is that the Universal Feed Parser just got a lot more universal.
Rearview Mirror: The ghostly city beneath Detroit
The salt mines. (via Les Orchard)
Techno fest team builds on success
Derrick May and his staff talk about this years’ Movement techno festival in Detroit.

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