By Adam Kaplan March 5, 2008 1:43 pm March 5, 2008 1:43 pm I work in the NYTimes.com feeds team. We handle retrieving, parsing and transforming incoming feeds from whatever strange proprietary format our partners choose to give us into something that our CMS can digest. As you can imagine, we deal with a huge amount of text processing. To handle all of these transformations as efficiently as possi