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OSCON for FREE!
Date: 12/31/1969
I am offering a novel idea about Open Source.
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Grouping in XQuery
Date: 12/31/1969
One of the really convenient features introduced in XSLT 2.0 is Grouping. It is a typical second-generation change in a programming language: Not essential for the language itself (grouping can be done by hand using techniques such as the Muenchian...
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XML makes you stoopid!
Date: 12/31/1969
Everyone is missing the forest for the trees on Google Protcol Buffers not using XML.
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Google hates XML
Date: 12/31/1969
Goolge does not know how to use XML - in fact it seems the HATE it.
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Why M. David Peterson is WRONG
Date: 12/31/1969
The truth in blogging: follow the money to know where your favorite posting really are saying.
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Microsoft credible as blushing debutante at the standards ball?
Date: 12/31/1969
Effective participation in standards bodies involves quite specific commitment and development of expertise, it is not a generic capability that can be instantly redeployed, Rumsfield-style, to trouble spots. For example, while knowledge of OASIS procedures may help you understand some...
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Using SwiXML and Substance 5
Date: 12/31/1969
SwiXML is Wolf Paulus' XML User Interface languge (XUI or XUL) which uses the regularity of the Java Swing GUI libraries to allow very lightweight implementation: XML elements are used for JComponents, XML attributes are used for properties (e.g. <frame...
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Why Jeff Atwood Is Right
Date: 12/31/1969
Firstly, I, like many of you, am glad to see that Dare Obasanjo's indefinite hiatus from the blogosphere was short lived. Secondly, while I most certainly agree with the premise of his recent "In Defense of XML" post -- which...
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CherryPy 3.1 Released
Date: 12/31/1969
CherryPy 3.1 is out and there are some exciting new features. The first exciting piece is the Web Site Process Bus. Robert Brewer had come up with an idea to create a generic server management API to help make management...
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10% of top Google product features are broken every week. Result of Google culture - Roll out cool features, not focus on quality?
Date: 12/31/1969
My saga on problems with GMail continue. Despite of the -ve feedback ("GMail is working fine", "GMail is awesome', "Not sure why you are complaining GMail?" etc) to my posts, I continue to see the problems with GMail. I am...
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RDF Parsing in XSLT
Date: 12/31/1969
During the recent discussion of the OAI-ORE drafts (which use RDF), the claim was made that RDF is serialized in RDF/XML and thus could be considered an XML representation of the underlying data model. My response to that was that...
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Freedom in Web Applications
Date: 12/31/1969
It is interesting to see the progression of free software along side the proliferation of the web. When I first started programming, I got involved with a web CMS I used in my contract work. I would write a new...
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Associating Resources with Namespaces
Date: 12/31/1969
The W3C just published a new TAG Finding called Associating Resources with Namespaces. Here's the abstract: This Finding addresses the question of how ancillary information (schemas, stylesheets, documentation, etc.) can be associated with a namespace. I don't quite understand why...
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Permanent URLs for things in the real world
Date: 12/31/1969
At the Semantic Technologies conference in San Jose I attended an interesting presentation entitled “persistent identifiers for the real web”. XML often uses URLs for identifying schema namespaces, and I suppose could be credited for influencing RDF’s practice of using...
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Castoff hints? Rethinking interoperability and fidelity
Date: 12/31/1969
First some jargon (from the Glossary of Typesetting Terms or Harrod's Librarians' Glossary full props to Google.) Castoff: The calculation the number of typeset pages a manuscript will make, based on a character count. Proof: An impression made from type...
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