For the past month, I’ve been unable to study anything new and sexy. Rather, I’ve been preparing for the ICPC 2010 World Finals. Most recently, I’ve been working on this: Essentially, contestants build an AI to battle it out in an FPS-esque arena. It was really quite interesting, although it required serious time input. For [...]
XSLT is a method of transforming XML with a set of rules, functions, and selectors. Transformations can be complex or simple, but the benefit of using XSLT is immediately obvious after first use. Consider the following: <posts> <post> <title>XSLT!</title> <description>A short post about XSLT</description> <content date = "01/03/2009"> Lorum ipsum </content> </post> <posts> The naive [...]