Norm's musings. Make of them what you will.
This weblog is part experimental playground, part soap box, and part pleasant diversion for me. Here you’ll find opinions, technical and otherwise, photographs, and whatever interests me when I sit down to write. If you'd like to follow along, you can subscribe to one or more of several feeds.
GSD!, 25 Jan 2010
Our engineering department has a project management philosophy they describe as GSD. I aspire to GSD.…
XML Prague 2010, 24 Jan 2010
See you at XML Prague! And a chance to plug some really excellent training.…
NYMUG: Cloud deployment options, 24 Jan 2010
Denise Miura, Sr. Director of Product Management will be speaking about Mark Logic's new offering for the Cloud at our upcoming User Group in New York this Wednesday.…
XProc: Back to Last Call, 28 Dec 2009
Early in January, a new XProc draft will appear. It will be a Last Call Working Draft, a step backwards in the process, or maybe just a half-step. The reason is important though: versioning.…
NYMUG Summary, 12 Nov 2009
Last night, I spoke at the inaugural New York Mark Logic User Group meeting. I think it was a crowd pleaser, or at least, the punchline at the end was.…
NYMUG: New York Mark Logic Users Group!, 04 Nov 2009 (modified 05 Nov 2009)
The inaugural meeting of the New York Mark Logic User Group will take place on Wednesday evening, 11 November 2009.…
Evernote, 01 Nov 2009 (modified 02 Nov 2009)
With a scanner and some Python, I'm an enthusiastic convert to Evernote.…
Call for Vote - DocBook V5.0, 19 Oct 2009
DocBook V5.0 is ready to become an OASIS Standard!…
Micro-blogging Backup, part the fifth, 18 Oct 2009 (modified 19 Oct 2009)
In which we clean things up.…
Built my own..., 16 Oct 2009
Another geekdom right of passage: builing my own box.…
XML Calabash 0.9.15, 06 Oct 2009
A new release at last. New features, fewer bugs, and test suite clean again.…
XML Summer School ’09, 05 Oct 2009 (modified 06 Oct 2009)
Open source and web technologies at XML Summer School.…
Dominican Republic, 05 Oct 2009 (modified 06 Oct 2009)
A long weekend in the Dominican Republic brings me to country number 15.…
SQL to XML, 26 Sep 2009
A number of Mac applications store information in SQLite databases. Step one to do something useful with that data is to get it into XML.…
RDFa for DocBook?, 22 Sep 2009 (modified 26 Sep 2009)
Adding RDFa to DocBook would make it possible to add a class of semantic annotations to DocBook without changing the schema. But is that a good idea?…
Micro-blogging Backup, part the fourth, 09 Sep 2009
In which we get to see what our tweets and ’dents look like.…
Micro-blogging Backup, part the third, 03 Sep 2009 (modified 05 Sep 2009)
In which we peel back the covers on what's been built so far.…
XML+XQuery+Google Voice+Python=WIN!, 01 Sep 2009
It's finally possible to put all the pieces together.…
Micro-blogging Backup, part the second, 28 Aug 2009
In which we setup the database one screen at a time and then import our first status messages.…
Micro-blogging Backup, part the first, 27 Aug 2009
What started out as a trivial exercise in backing up my Twitter and Identi.ca posts turned into a little microcosm of XML Server application development. It's something you can deploy for free on your very own MarkLogic Server!…
Using XML Catalogs and XProc together, 22 Jul 2009
XML Calabash, my implementation of XProc, is my go-to tool these days for manipulating XML documents. Adding XML Catalogs into the mix just makes it sweeter.…
Not exactly XProc, 23 Jun 2009 (modified 24 Jun 2009)
One advantage of being an implementor is that I can play with languages that the Working Group didn't approve.…
Java vs. AJAX, 10 Jun 2009
Watching the twitter stream from JavaOne go by, I was initially surprised by the apparent frontal assault on AJAX. It seemed like an odd target at first; on further reflection, not so much.…
Building my own…, 03 Jun 2009
I've always wanted to pick out the components and build my own computer. Maybe the time has come.…
Balisage 2009, 03 Jun 2009
Bring out yer demo for free beer!…
Miscellany, 29 May 2009
On speaking engagements (two excellent conferences), anniversaries, and VoIP.…
Perhaps the penultimate XProc draft, 28 May 2009
Today, the XML Processing Model Working Group published a new working draft. Not the very last working draft, but possibly very close.…
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