The short-form week of 4–10 Feb 2013
11 Feb 2013; last modified 12 Feb 2013
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
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 Sunday at 03:50pm
Man. I’m totally stumped about 1Password suddenly not working. Even my backup can’t
be opened with my passphrase.—@ndw
@ndw your issues just when I was thinking about using it on iDevices + Mac. I'll follow
with interest what more you tweet about 1password.—@koalie
@ndw It happened to me years ago; I thought I was stupid not to remember my own password...
so it may be a bug! Anyway, I use bento now...—@ivan_herman
@laurendw @ndw try the HTML version with your data dir - has JS implementation of the encryption
(1Password Anywhere I think it’s called)—@fidothe
Monday at 06:48am
Monday at 11:15am
Dev: "It works on my machine, just not on the server." Me: "Ok, backup your mail.
We're putting your laptop into production."—@oising
Monday at 05:34pm
Dear person who’s had support on speaker phone for almost an hour, if you can’t find
the “/“ and “\” characters, you shouldn’t have a laptop—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:18pm
RT @xmlcalabash XML Calabash (an #XProc processor) version 1.0.8 released. Next stop: #XMLPrague—@ndw
Monday at 09:05pm
“Organic sea salt.” Uhm. No. /via http://t.co/L3ByroC8—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:15pm
Watch A Ping-Pong Ball Break The Sound Barrier, And Then A Ping-Pong Paddle http://t.co/0Wn9YKfH—@jdvogt
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:28am
@ndw, is @fragid in #XInclude really "implementation defined"? shouldn't it instead require to support standard
fragid schemes, if defined?—@dret
Wednesday at 09:32am
OH “I think anyone who says they should be mutable should be muted.”—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:20pm
OH "Would you like an English menu?" "Oh, yes, I was doing a statistical analysis
of the Czech language."—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:56pm
"Philosophical human geography." I have nothing to add.—@ndw
Friday at 11:56am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:06pm
@ndw Hey there... Will I see you at the W3 eBook workshop in NYC next Monday and Tuesday?—@JeanKaplansky
@JeanKaplansky Alas, no. Will still be in Prague for XSLT WG meetings.—@ndw
Saturday at 03:26am
Saturday at 03:36am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 04:00am
@JeniT Nothing serious, @michaelhkay couldn’t use the DocBook stylesheets for his tech doc demo, compilation took too
long.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 04:36am
Bento for Mac and iThings seems a bit overkill for my Password Manager need. Still
looking into Password Manager options for Mac and iOS—@koalie
@kplawver @koalie I was way happier before it “forgot” my master password. Still struggling with the
ramifications. One more backup to try.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 04:54am
@ndw, do i HAVE to admit that i didn't understand your snark?—@jonathan_robie
@jonathan_robie I discovered recently that there’s an analytic solution to finding numbers in the
Fibonacci sequence. That’s it. #xmlprague—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 05:38am
@Kandura - can you help me brainstorm further do/don't guidelines with examples?—@jonathan_robie
@jonathan_robie ... however, at this moment, xsl:sort doesn't (yet) support taking a function as
an argument—@Kandura
@Kandura we should modify our functions library to support hof at strategic places. sort is
easy to explain to users.—@jonathan_robie
Saturday at 06:44am
IDML measures distances down to what, the Ångström?—@ndw
Saturday at 08:30am
Saturday at 08:44am
Saturday at 08:47am
Saturday at 08:52am
A couple of casual attempts to devise a Cocoon driver for #XMLCalabash. Cocoon 2.2 *way* too complex; 3.0 also too complex. For me. Today.—@ndw
Saturday at 08:53am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 08:54am
@ndw How is p:set-base-uri different from adding an xml:base attribute other than internal
magic?—@alexmilowski
@alexmilowski It’s different because it changes the base URI *of the document* not just the document’s
document element.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 08:55am
@ndw is it possible to define extension functions for XPath in an XQuery module and use
in #XProc? #xmlprague—@jonathan_robie
@jonathan_robie No, I assume that (or something like it) is what @rdeltour is thinking of for “native XPath functions”.—@ndw
Saturday at 08:55am
Saturday at 09:22am
FWIW, some thoughts on the ability to read ports from XPath expressions in #XProc: http://t.co/WXwkBlIV #xmlprague—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 09:32am
EPIC HACK OF THE DAY:
traceroute 216.81.59.173
# DO THIS NOW
/ht @gravax—@AlecMuffett
Saturday at 10:32am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:07am
@ndw Can you record me for the demo with "oXygen 20.4"—@georgebina
@georgebina Sure. You got it.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:30am
Saturday at 11:32am
i think that i shall never see/a graph as lovely as a tree/ and if a graph i must
traverse/this poem shall go from bad to worse #xmlprague—@jonathan_robie
Saturday at 12:04pm
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 01:34pm
Saturday at 01:45pm
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 02:46pm
Saturday at 04:38pm
Sunday at 03:46am
Sunday at 03:52am
XML vs. MicroXML. Meh.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:00am
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:02am
I wonder what XSLT looks like in a world without namespaces? <element name=“name”>
instead of <name> everywhere? #xmlprague—@ndw
.@james_clark Just assume every tech can claim any short prefix it wants? xsl-stuff, xpl-stuff,
sch-stuff, …? Maybe. #xmlprague—@ndw
@ndw XSLT is a special case because it needs to freely mix XSLT elements with arbitrary
other XML elements.—@james_clark
@james_clark Well. So does XProc. So does XML Schema. People mix their own metadata into DocBook.
It doesn’t seem that uncommon to me.—@ndw
@ndw In most cases I suspect it would be easy to restrict foreign vocabularies to only
occur at specific extension points.—@james_clark
.@james_clark Perhaps. The world would be complicated in different ways. Maybe better ways. #xmlprague—@ndw
Sunday at 04:03am
Sunday at 04:08am
Sunday at 04:19am
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:23am
#xmlprague XSLT sans namespaces? <xxx.transform> declares xxx as the prefix for instructions,
and can be any prefix you like?—@michaelhkay
@michaelhkay So XSLT owns all the tags that match \S+\.transform? I suppose, but, ugh. #xmlprague—@ndw
@ndw @michaelhkay We could replace @xmlns with java-style <org.w3c.xslt.template for example (overly verbose tho) #xmlprague—@georgebashi
.@georgebashi @michaelhkay Yes, we could do namespaces differently. But would that be worth the effort? #xmlprague—@ndw
Sunday at 08:49am
Sunday at 08:50am
Sunday at 08:53am
a for clause and a let clause walk into a bar, and before they order, are asked are
you with a group? do you plan to return? #xmlprague—@jonathan_robie