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.
Numbered program listings, 19 May 2012
In DocBook
Putting line numbers in program listings is harder than it looks.
The short-form week of 8–14 May 2012, 15 May 2012
In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
The short-form week of 30 Apr–6 May 2012, 07 May 2012
In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
The short-form week of 23–29 Apr 2012, 30 Apr 2012
In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
Amusing physics, 23 Apr 2012
In Humor
An accident of optics amuses me, quite possibly more than it should.
The short-form week of 16–22 Apr 2012, 23 Apr 2012
In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
text/plain, RFC 5147, XInclude, and XML Calabash, 21 Apr 2012
In Balisage, Calabash, XML
Useful non-conformance: on the intersection of text/plain documents,
RFC 5147, XInclude, and XML Calabash.
photos.nwalsh.com: the sources, 18 Apr 2012
In MarkLogic, Photography
If you're interested in running your own photo server, this is the bits.
Let's ride!, 17 Apr 2012
In BikeRiding
It's spring and a young man's fancy lightly turns to…yeah, well, that
and getting out on his bike.
The short-form week of 9–15 Apr 2012, 16 Apr 2012
In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
The short-form week of 2–8 Apr 2012, 09 Apr 2012
In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
I left my ⚘ in TX, 08 Apr 2012
In Flowers, Texas
Well, not my flower, per se, but c'mon it was an
irresistible symbolic pun (U+2698 for U+2764 in case your
reader is Unicode-deficient)! And the flowers were
spectacular!
The short-form week of 26 Mar–1 Apr 2012, 02 Apr 2012
In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
photos.nwalsh.com, 26 Mar 2012
In MarkLogic, Photography
My new photo site is the product of a few evenings hacking.
The short-form week of 19–25 Mar 2012, 26 Mar 2012
In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
The short-form week of 12–18 Mar 2012, 19 Mar 2012
In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
Photo catch up, 12 Mar 2012
In Photography, Travel, XMLPrague2012
Catching up with photographs from England, Prague, and the Caribbean.
The short-form week of 5–11 Mar 2012, 12 Mar 2012
In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
Of .p12 certs, email, and exim, 08 Mar 2012
In Email
Sending mail with a .p12 certificate using Exim.
The short-form week of 27 Feb–4 Mar 2012, 05 Mar 2012
In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
The short-form week of 20–26 Feb 2012, 27 Feb 2012
In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
XInclude 1.1 requirements, 20 Feb 2012
In DocBook, XML
XInclude 1.1 attempts to address a couple of new use cases.
RELAX NG Grammars for XSLT 1.0, 2.0, 3.0…, 20 Feb 2012
In RELAXNG, XSLT2
Future development of the XSLT RELAX NG Grammars has moved to github.
XML-ER, 20 Feb 2012
In W3C, XML
The XML Error Recovery Community Group is up and running.
And my spirits are raised just the tiniest amount about the
future of XML on the web.
The short-form week of 13–19 Feb 2012, 20 Feb 2012
In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
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