The short-form week of 13–19 Jul 2009
20 Jul 2009; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 34 messages in 29 conversations. (With 2 favorites.)
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.
In a conversation that started on Monday at 04:01pm
#MarkLogic why does the xdmp:document-insert not have the possibility to add <options/> as all
the other document functions?—@jfix
@jfix at this pt. its a historical artifact of the api. insert has options passed as separate
params. newer functions get <options/>—@peteaven
thanks @peteaven for this info, so how can I provide encoding instructions (which usually would be
in the XML declaration)?—@jfix
@jfix You dont need an encoding with xdmp:document-insert, as you're inserting an XML
node, which will already be in UTF-8.—@StephenBuxton
@StephenBuxton well,Unicode if you want to be pedantic. UTF-8 is an encoding. Data models don't
have an encoding, they're just Unicode.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:43am
has anyone found the new search page in iphone os 3 useful? i'm struggling to think
of why i would need it—@iand
Tuesday at 10:14am
Tuesday at 11:02am
When force-quit and sudo kill -9 don't kill an OS X process, is there any other recourse
besides rebooting?—@ndw
Tuesday at 01:10pm
Whatever VLC (1.0) did to my system, it wouldn't die and the OS wouldn't reboot. Blech.—@ndw
Tuesday at 01:49pm
I have to post about the joy that is #xproc + #xmlcatalogs for proc. volumes of XML (loading it into MarkLogic Server in this case).—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:05pm
Sigh. Whatever VLC did, Finder has now done. 'ps' says process 151 is "(Finder)",
but it's not really running and it's not killable. Feck.—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:22pm
Nambu and TwitFactory both seem to be totally confused by the prospect of the same
username on two different services.—@ndw
Tuesday at 03:48pm
Third reboot of the day for some weird zombified process. So much for my hope of waiting
until Snow Leopard for a clean rebuild.—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:25pm
I wonder what the beancounters estimate a network TV station makes per viewer per
hour on average. Anyone got a clue?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:15am
Man, 'rm -rf' is a really sharp tool. It cuts easy and deep when used carelessly.—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:52pm
Machine's wedged again. Sigh. I'm too busy for this, please come back later, kthxbai.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:29pm
Quote: some companies say people are most important asset; that's a nice idea. but
cash, you can count. i like the people who generate cash.—@ramblingman
@ramblingman Generating it as fast as I can, sir, as fast as I can :-)—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:32pm
#xmlcalabash phoned home 6,055 times in March, 9,532 times in April, and 276,265 times in May!
Back "down" to 29,932 in June.—@ndw
Thursday at 03:00pm
The part of Schröodinger's Ball where the book crashes and has to reboot is quite
funny in a geeky sort of way http://bit.ly/oR21s—@ndw
Thursday at 03:01pm
I'm tempted to go looking for a coded message in the several pages of core dump. But
not that tempted.—@ndw
Thursday at 04:07pm
Scala looks interesting. Can I have a new, thirteenth month in between July and August
so I can spend some time playing with it? kthxbai.—@ndw
Thursday at 06:22pm
Hey! I got my Google Voice invitation. I'm now 413-624-6676 now. Features I want from
a phone number. Looking forward to trying it out.—@ndw
Friday at 08:09am
The receptionist at my dentist didn't understand why I found it amusing that my appt
is at 2:30. Guess he's not big on puns.—@adamwitwer
Friday at 10:04am
OH: Where's your hearing aid? / I don't know I didn't expect to be hearing anything.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:39pm
Thinking that maybe 'C-u 1 0 0 0 0 0 C-x e' was not the fastest road from here to
there after all. #emacs—@ndw
@ndw But that's exactly the reason why I revived my emacs yesterday. Well, perhaps the
100000 part ...—@0xcafebabe
@0xcafebabe Revived? What, there's something *else*? Never!—@ndw
Friday at 01:43pm
Nor perhaps was 'find data -type f -name "*.xml" -exec sh bin/fixit {} \;'. Especially
not at the same time.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:04pm
Next, on CNN: Is the Earth really round? Some critics say no.—@gruber
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:07pm
RT @lmorchard: Wow. This convinces me that I'll never buy another DRM-infected e-book.... http://bit.ly/82ph9—@iand
WTF!? RT @iand RT @lmorchard: Wow. This convinces me that I'll never buy another DRM-infected e-book.... http://bit.ly/82ph9—@ndw
Friday at 03:42pm
New rule: if your product is DRM-ed, you can't use the word "buy now" on your web
site, only "be granted partial access for a while, maybe".—@robc2
Friday at 04:03pm
XProc loading thousands and thousands of Calabash traces. p:try/p:catch FTW!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 06:19am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:16am
wondering why http-request (like http-request-001) unit tests expected results are
not wrapped up in a c:response/c:body—@xquery
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:22am
JSON and Relax NG are cool too and people use them. However, a schema-aware XSLT2
or XQuery can only reference an XSD, not a RelaxNG.—@jamoussou