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.
Creating a DocBook V5.0 DTD, 18 Mar 2010 (modified 19 Mar 2010)
Taking another stab at the long-standing problem of producing DTD (and XSD) versions of the DocBook V5.0 family of schemas.…
XProc Proposed Recommendation!, 10 Mar 2010 (modified 19 Mar 2010)
I'm pleased to report that XProc: An XML Pipeline Language is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation.…
Wiki editing with XProc, 07 Mar 2010
An example, for better or worse, of automating website interaction with XProc.…
Where am I?, 06 Mar 2010 (modified 07 Mar 2010)
Or, perhaps more to the point, where was I? And where will I be?…
What your drive knows, and what it doesn't, 01 Mar 2010
I recently had occasion to swap hard drives between two essentially identical laptops. A surprising number of apps knew the difference.…
Demo Jam at XML Prague!, 23 Feb 2010
Demo Jam was a huge success at Balisage last year, so we're going to give it a go at XML Prague too!…
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.…
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