On the serendipitous joy of finding XML.
Our engineering department has a project management philosophy they describe as GSD. I aspire to GSD.
See you at XML Prague! And a chance to plug some really excellent training.
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.
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.
9 June 1923 — 26 November 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.
The inaugural meeting of the New York Mark Logic User Group will take place on Wednesday evening, 11 November 2009.
DocBook V5.0 is an OASIS Standard!
With a scanner and some Python, I'm an enthusiastic convert to Evernote.
DocBook V5.0 is ready to become an OASIS Standard!
In which we clean things up.
Another geekdom right of passage: builing my own box.
A new release at last. New features, fewer bugs, and test suite clean again.
Open source and web technologies at XML Summer School.
A long weekend in the Dominican Republic brings me to country number 15.
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.
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?
In which we get to see what our tweets and ’dents look like.
In which we peel back the covers on what's been built so far.
It's finally possible to put all the pieces together.
In which we setup the database one screen at a time and then import our first status messages.
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!
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.
One advantage of being an implementor is that I can play with languages that the Working Group didn't approve.
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.
I've always wanted to pick out the components and build my own computer. Maybe the time has come.
Bring out yer demo for free beer!
On speaking engagements (two excellent conferences), anniversaries, and VoIP.
Today, the XML Processing Model Working Group published a new working draft. Not the very last working draft, but possibly very close.