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Archive for February 9th, 2011

The Stack Overflow Storage Decision

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/09

Spoiler: Stack Overflow cured their Disk subsystem IO problems by putting in a RAID 10 of Intel X-25-E’s.

Full article: Our Storage Decision – blog.serverfault.com.

–jeroen

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The hilarious answer on Stack Overflow in why not to parse html with RegEx

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/09

Quite a while ago, user bobince wrote great answer on why not to parse html with RegEx.

Somehow people fail to recognize the brilliance of the answer, and try to simplify it into something like “don’t, use an XML or HTML parser in stead”.

bobince even posted some nice contra-examples that are impossible to  parse in RegEx (heck, even most regular HTML and XML parsers have difficulties with them).

So: enjoy the beauty of the answer while it is still locked for editing.

–jeroen

Posted in Development, HTML, RegEx, Software Development, Web Development, XML, XML/XSD | 2 Comments »