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Waterloo Students Build a Skateboard/Snowmobile

Submitted by ill_mango on Sunday April 15 2007, @03:22PM

ill_mango writes "Some students at the University of Waterloo have built a skateboard/snowmobile combo called the SnoDeck. It's just a proof-of-concept, so you can't buy it, but the video is pretty interesting. Check it out."

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Comment: Walk the dom directly (Score 1) 104

by johnpeb on Wednesday November 15 2006, @12:18PM (#16854476) Attached to: How To Build a Web Spider On Linux

Once i had to collect a lot of info from a website. I used java and wget and some java html parser library (possibly JTidy). anyway the code was very short and clean. I'd recommend DOM walking to other solutions when the data isn't trivial.

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