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September 15 2009
A few days ago, I bought iLife '09 at a university bookstore (Apple, by the way, has the most liberal academic pricing I know of—I got the academic discount because my daughter is a student at the university) and attempted... read moreMay 15 2009
I discussed the Wolfram Alpha "computational knowledge engine" in a blog a few days ago. To see how it works, you can watch a screencast (13:23) introducing the new search engine here. You can also watch Wolfram Alpha go live... read moreComing this Month: Wolfram|Alpha Search
May 12 2009
Sometime this month, a new, more-interesting-than-your-average-search-engine will launch: Wolfram|Alpha. Wolfram Research, who has brought us Mathematica and A New Kind of Science, has set out to "create a true computational knowledge engine" that I am dying to play with. According... read moreDecember 13 2005
If you didn't notice... it was announced today that you can now do version control with Subversion on RubyForge. You can even switch an existing project from CVS to Subversion. Nice. It's hard not to be a fan-nothing new here-of both Subversion and Ruby. You try, you like. read moreNovember 22 2005
I was visiting with Erik Hatcher at the Rails gig in Reston last Saturday. I really like what he has done with his book Lucene in Action (which he coauthored with Otis Gospodnetic). Essentially, he created a search engine for his book on Lucene with Lucene. read moreNovember 21 2005
Just got back from Reston, Virginia today after attending a three-day workshop on Ruby and Ruby on Rails put on by the folks at Pragmatic. Lots of Java people there; one said, "It'll be hard to go back." I don't think he meant it as a ding on Java, or… read moreJune 01 2005
Just when you thought RELAX NG was moribund, summarily lanced by the Sith lords of schema, it shows up in the most interesting places. This time it has appeared in the latest W3C working draft for XHTML 2.0 as a normative schema definition for the markup language. read moreSubverting CVS with Subversion
May 11 2004
I don't have a ton of complaints about RCS (which I started using about 14 years ago) or CVS, though I am sure others have more. My one fog-minded problem I had with CVS was configuration - just getting it to work as expected - which might have just been… read moreMay 06 2004
I didn't see it at XML Europe 2004 (in fact, I didn't go, though I wished I could have), but according to Eric van der Vlist, Alexander Peshkov of RenderX, Inc. gave a presentation on writing a RELAX NG schema for XSL-FO. read moreApril 06 2004
Yesterday, I was looking at the OpenOffice file format specification which was issued as an OASIS committee specification on March 22. If I understand the wording of the spec correctly, RELAX NG is now the normative schema language for OpenOffice. Fragments of the normative RELAX NG schema appear on nearly… read moreMarch 26 2004
Since arriving at the party in 2001, RELAX NG, a nifty schema language for XML, has grown from an OASIS committee spec into an international standard (ISO/IEC FDIS 19757-2:2002). Some shrug it off in favor of the more widespread XML Schema, but those who are well aquainted with RELAX NG… read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
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