The short-form week of 16–22 Mar 2009
23 Mar 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 38 messages in 33 conversations. (With 1 favorite.)
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
Monday at 03:22pm
Playing around for XML Prague: implemented an XProc "eval" step. Remarkably straightforward.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 04:13pm
Monday at 05:13pm
Enjoying an American Ale, a pretty good one, before my departure to LHR.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 05:34pm
I think Facebook is throwing down the gauntlet and going to everything. They're getting
more attractive to this Twitter user every day.—@davewiner
Monday at 05:38pm
Scored seat 30H on this 777 IAD-LHR, it ain't business class, but I can haz legroom
yes plz ty.—@ndw
Monday at 05:41pm
If only United provided in-seat power like American...—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:33am
I miss the old-school 'clackity-clackity-clack' tumbler-style departure board at London
Liverpool Street. Digital? Bah. Who needs it?—@ndw
Saturday at 02:42am
I can haz bits. For the first time in almost a week, I can haz bits.—@ndw
Saturday at 10:15am
Getting bashed by Robin over DocBook element names...—@ndw
Saturday at 10:20am
The historical rationale on DocBook names is that they weren't case sensitive in SGML—@ndw
Saturday at 10:28am
wrt XLink: my *biggest* mistake was agreeing to edit XLink 1.1.—@ndw
Saturday at 10:46am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:00am
MLA FAIL: “the MLA no longer recommends the inclusion of URLs in the works-cited-list
entries for Web publications.” http://bit.ly/yiL76—@jschneider
@jschneider There may be problems with URLs, but not pointing to them isn't the answer for any
of them.—@ndw
Saturday at 11:12am
Saturday at 11:18am
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:06am
@ndw - would really like to get MarkLogic involved with this - www.exquery.org - perhaps
we could have a chat later?—@adamretter
@adamretter Absolutely!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:27am
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:38am
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:05am
Optimizing XML Content Delivery with XProc
Vojtěch Toman coming up next—@xmlprague
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:19am
Sunday at 04:26am
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:28am
You don't need to create new pipelines to wrap built-in steps, do you? Can't you invoke
them directly just like user-defined steps?—@JeniT
Sunday at 04:39am
@adamretter exproc is designed with the same sorts of goals in mind as exslt and exquery.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:53am
Sunday at 05:24am
Adreneline wearing off. Higher brain functions shutting down...—@ndw
Sunday at 05:55am
Someone (Rick Jelliffe, I think) asked me about federating some things at Apache.
Another option, I suppose.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 06:05am
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:58am
Updated the XProc test coverage report. We have a ways to go... http://tinyurl.com/c65fjd—@ndw
Sunday at 09:27am
fears there are holes in his test suite coverage generation stylesheet. Surely try-001.xml
and try-002.xml use, you know, p:try?—@ndw