The problem
We have a complex XML file with many different node types, etc. supplied by a third party via a URL reference.
There’s an initial dump, and then an incremental update every couple of weeks, with additions, deletions and updates.
What I’d like to be able to do is to drive a symfony app with this data.
Some thoughts so far
I’m a symfony noob.
Getting the data
I could manually transform the XML into YAML to create the schema and the initial data load, and then build the app. But I don’t want to have to do this manually for the regular updates. Ideally, I’d like to use the symfony ORM to handle all the transactions, rather than a completely separate (outside symfony) script.
… and some images
The XML also contains URIs for remotely hosted images, and I’d like to be able to automagically pull these down to the local app file system and rewrite the references.
Anything that will help us to get started in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
Google Chrome
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Google have today released their new web browser, Google Chrome, in beta.
Man is it fast!!!! I’ve been using it this evening and it really flies. While it supposedly uses more memory than other browsers, this use of extra memory is due to the fact that it spawns a new process for each tab, so if, for example, some nasty JavaScript on a particular page decides to strangle your browser, justthat one tab will be affected. And this also alledgedly prevents the memory leaks that plague other browsers.
It’s only available to Windows XP/Vista users at this stage; I’m eagerly awaiting the Mac version.
Any, back to some awesome browsing…
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