For the recent Facebook platform integration project I was tasked with parsing various forms of Xml returned from the Facebook REST web service. REST or Representational State Transfer, is a term coined by Roy Fielding in his Ph.D. dissertation to describe an architecture style of networked systems. In the Facebook world, to get back some [...]

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Last night I was tasked with extracting some data from an unbootable Windows XP desktop. Now I know there is hardware out there that would have allowed me to pull the hard drive and mount it on another PC, but my goal was to mount the computer from a bootable CD or USB drive. What [...]

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