FireBug for FireFox

There's a nice addon/plugin for FireFox called FireBug, which can be used in order to get a nice view on the source of the current page that you're viewing, including HTML, CSS, JS, network statistics, including debugging, and a few more features.

See: http://www.getfirebug.com/

Added a new book review on Amazon

I just finished writing a book review to Definitive XML Schema by Priscilla Walmsley.

You can read it along with other reviews I wrote at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A10UA4V0Z4691N

NIST announces competition for new cryptographic hash algorithm

NIST announces competition for new cryptographic hash algorithm. This sounds like a nice opportunity to go public with ideas you have for a new cryptographic hash function.
See: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/012307-nist-cryptographic-algorithm.html

A nice introduction to Finite-State Automata and Regular Expression with Critique about Regular Expression Engines' implementations

Russ Cox explains and demonstrates how good old theory put to practice results in good computer programs while ignoring good theory leads to bad programs.

See: Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (but is slow in Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, ...) by Russ Cox


His regexp page contains more interesting information and implementations.

Weekly sys-admin tips for Linux and Windows

Martin Kroser, a friend of mine, opened a blog with weekly sys-admin tricks for Windows and Linux. See: http://windowsandlinuxweeklytips.blogspot.com/

I announced the February meeting of the Israel.pm (Israeli Perl Mongers).
See: http://perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2007-January/008376.html

I just added a few new books reviews on Amazon

Check out my book reviews on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A10UA4V0Z4691N/ref=cm_pdp_reviews_see_all/002-1178222-6558416

Nice article about how to auto-test web applications for security

http://www.net-security.org/dl/articles/Crawling_Ajax_driven_Web_2.0.pdf

My profiles over the Internet

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Gnosis -- a cool addon plugin for FireFox

From the documentation of the Gnosis plugin:

"With a single click, Gnosis will identify the people, companies, organizations, geographies and products on the page you are viewing."

Check out:ClearForest Gnosis

Companies involved in Natural Language Processing in Israel

Here are some companies that are involved in Natural Language Processing in Israel:

* Ligature Ltd
* Linguistic Agents Ltd
* infoneto
* peer39
* Semingo
* Information Retrieval Group at the IBM Haifa Research Labs
* Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew, Technion, ITT.
* The Pudding
* ClearForest
* PureSight
* Topixa
* Targetize
* internative
* 2001
* Wizsoft
* Activepoint
* Holtran
* Idioma
* Persay
* Celebros
* Nielsen BuzzMetrics
* Melingo
* Invoke
* Nuance
* Effective-i
* Quigo
* Intuview
* Answers.com
* Pidgin
* Babylon
* Google
* Mercado
* White Smoke
* CubeEffect

My 2006 פדיחה is in the Semi-finals

Check out: תחרות הפאדיחה - חצי גמר 1

New books that I ordered

I ordered a few books from Amazon:

• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)
• Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation
• Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures: A Dependence-based Approach
• Querying XML, : XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)