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	<link>http://lexandera.com</link>
	<description>A blog about the web, mobile web, semantic web and mobile semantic web.</description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t &#8212; in Scala</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While browsing Reddit yesterday, I came across this thread on Perl&#8217;s Acme::Don't module. The Acme::Don't module is a joke module which adds support for &#8220;don't&#8220;, the opposite of the &#8220;do&#8221; command. The &#8220;don't&#8221; construct accepts a block of code and then DOESN&#8217;T execute it, no matter what. Now, lately I&#8217;ve been playing around with Scala [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/11/dont-in-scala/</link>
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		<title>Predictions on the future of NoSQL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days new NoSQL databases are springing up faster than URL shorteners. Even incomplete lists are likely to mention over 50 of them, most of them never heard of before. But even though they&#8217;re all being lumped together under the same name, they are so different from each other that there&#8217;s still a dilemma how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/11/predictions-on-the-future-of-nosql/</link>
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		<title>Replacing menus with dashboards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or do most dialogs on Android seem to be removed really, really far away from the main parts of applications?
Not sure what I&#8217;m talking about?
Let&#8217;s take a look at the browser, for example. Just entering a new URL requires you to go through 3 different screens:

By the time you can start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/09/replacing-menus-with-dashboards/</link>
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		<title>Advertising overload</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I followed a link to Forbes today and this is what I saw:

There&#8217;s an article hidden somewhere in that screenshot. Can you find it?
Content is no longer king. It is now a third-rate citizen; a stinky bait used to lure in visitors; a parasite eating away at precious advertising space.

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		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/07/advertising-overload/</link>
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		<title>The Future of Mobile Browsers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not that long ago, while my coworkers were attending a conference in London, I was spending my time wandering around the city in full tourist mode, trying to find a shop I had read about on the Internet but that didn&#8217;t seem to actually exist in real life. Although I was pretty sure I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/07/the-future-of-mobile-browsers/</link>
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		<title>Ultimate JavaScript minification</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Matjaž Lipuš, a social web geek, front-end web developer and semantic web enthusiast.
After developing some fat client applications using JavaScript frameworks I noticed how some code constantly repeats, making application footprint even bigger than necessary.
A while ago I (once again) stumbled upon article about helping the YUI Compressor. Article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/05/ultimate-javascript-minification/</link>
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		<title>A proposal for symbiosis between Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attention, please!
Wolfram Alpha is not a Google killer!
Wolfram Alpha is not a Wikipedia killer!
Wolfram Alpha does not want to dismember any company and bathe itself in its blood!
Please ignore unimaginative claims made by linkbait authors. Let&#8217;s forget the 1999&#8217;s prehistoric &#8220;me kill&#8221; mentality and focus instead on more peaceful opportunities. We now live in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/05/a-proposal-for-symbiosis-between-wolfram-alpha-and-wikipedia/</link>
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		<title>The future is in the ability to ignore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore.&#8221;, says Steve Gillmor in his Techcrunch post titled &#8220;Rest in Peace, RSS&#8220;. 
While most commenters see his rant as a sign of the old man slowly losing his mind, it is also a sign of another thing: filter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/05/the-future-is-in-the-ability-to-ignore/</link>
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		<title>On named parameters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a proof that quitting your job and not working on anything for two months is not good for you: I just spent two days pondering why named function parameters are loved by coders and considered an important part of many programming languages while named parameters in URLs are considered to be ugly, harmful and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/05/on-named-parameters/</link>
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		<title>Crowdsourcing the semantic web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is getting a bit old, isn&#8217;t it? Even after years and years of hearing about the semantic web, the actual semantic metadata is still an extremely rare occurrence on the web. It&#8217;s obvious that our current approach to building the linked data cloud is just not working.
Currently, all attempts at providing semantic metadata require [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/04/crowdsourcing-the-semantic-web/</link>
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		<title>Reinventing the wheel: the fluent interface design pattern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the fluent interface design pattern? It&#8217;s a design pattern which became very visible in recent time, mainly due to jQuery, which was designed around it. In this pattern, class methods return the same object they were called on (they end with &#8220;return this;&#8221;), which makes it possible to chain them. It also makes it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/04/reinventing-the-wheel-the-fluent-interface-design-pattern/</link>
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		<title>How is Mosembro different from OilCan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



Image via Wikipedia



If you looked at OilCan &#8211; a Greasemonkey-like browser extension for Android &#8211; and Mosembro, you&#8217;d quickly realize that they have a lot in common. Both are experimental browser extensions which run on Android, both aim to make websites friendlier, both support installable actions written in JavaScript, and both make it possible for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/02/how-is-mosembro-different-from-oilcan/</link>
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		<title>Mosembro r5 now available for download</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first major Mosembro release after r2 is now available for download.
If you already have Mosembro installed, uninstall it first by running: adb uninstall com.lexandera.mosembro
The new version can then be installed by executing the following command: adb install mosembro-r2.apk
New features include:

It is now possible to install addidional actions which extend Mosembro&#8217;s functionality.
Addresses can be copied [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/02/mosembro-r5-now-available-for-download/</link>
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		<title>Intercepting page loads in WebView</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is time for another WebView example. This time on how you can intercept any attempts at loading a web page and redirect the user to a different URL instead.
This can be achieved simply by registering a WebViewClient which overrides the shouldOverrideUrlLoading() method in which you tell the WebView to load a different URL from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/02/intercepting-page-loads-in-webview/</link>
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		<title>Web apps and Google&#8217;s webdrive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now, you&#8217;ve already heard about it: someone who religiously reads Google&#8217;s compacted CSS files found a reference to an icon called mini_webdrive.gif in one of them, and now everyone &#8211; including me &#8211; needs to post on their blog about how this hypothetical Google webdrive will enable us to do such incredibly amazing things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexandera.com/2009/01/web-apps-and-googles-webdrive/</link>
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