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M. David Peterson
Areas of Expertise:
  • XML
  • XSLT
  • C#
  • .NET
  • consulting
  • programming

Biography

M. David Peterson is a software development consultant who specializes in XML, XSLT, C#, the .NET platform, and functional programming languages such as Lisp and Scheme. His first line of code was written in 1983 on a Timex Sinclair 1000 bought by his father with the hope that it would bring satisfaction to the mind of his 11-year-old son and a little bit of sanity to his own. Generally speaking, it did.

His professional career began in 1996 as a contractor for the Microsoft corporation and has since continued as a contractor/consultant developing customized solutions for a variety of platforms and devices. During his career, he has spoken at many major industry development conferences, including Microsoft's TechEd, on multiple continents.

Born in California and raised in a suburb of Seattle, WA, he is the proud parent of his four-year-old son, Conner Max. Currently residing in Salt Lake City, UT, you can visit his personal weblog at http://www.xsltblog.com.

Blog

[Mono-Project:Moonlight] First Official Moonlight Release Takes Center Stage

May 14 2008

A day late on this one, but still worthy of a post, First Moonlight Release - Miguel de Icaza Today we are making the first public release of Moonlight, supporting the Silverlight 1.0 profile for Linux. The release comes in... read more

[len:QOTD] Ready, Fire, Aim

May 12 2008

Is it really that taxing... - O'Reilly XML Blog Most of the time when I find a programmer struggling with XML, they are a relational database programmer or an object-oriented programmer, or both. We should have lined these guys up... read more

Direct AtomPub Support Makes It Into .NET Platform

May 12 2008

Brain.Save() - We are pleased to bring you new features in .NET 3.5 SP1 Syndication OM for the Atom Publishing Protocol. We added strongly-typed OM for all of the constructs defined in the Atom Publishing Protocol specification (like ServiceDocument and... read more

[AWS:EC2] Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage: Redundant Disk Storage Across Multiple EC2 Nodes *Today*

May 12 2008

So as Jeff Barr recently pointed out over on the Amazon Web Services blog, Amazon Web Services Blog: Redundant Disk Storage Across Multiple EC2 XML Hacker M. David Peterson has put together a really interesting article. As part of his... read more

Want To Help Develop Visual Studio Support For Debugging Remote Mono Apps?

May 10 2008

As seen on irc://irc.gnome.org/#mono, Novell is hiring, temporary project 6 months, help improve Mono, use Visual Studio to debug remote Mono apps Contact: miguelATnovellDOTcom ... read more

Zorba XQuery Processor: Something Tells Me You Need To Pay Attention To This

May 01 2008

So I got a ping from William Candillon yesterday on IM, but I wasn't around so am just now getting in sync with him today. He and I had a discussion about a year or so back regarding a potential... read more

Some Facts About Me You Probably Didn't Know...

April 28 2008

In 1998 I gave up an extremely lucrative contract with MSFT to go and work -- for free -- as an intern for the Seattle Supersonics. My dream "job". That choice was a mistake. At least from a personal level.... read more

Norm Walsh Leaves Sun? And Just Like That, *POOF*,

April 28 2008

Update: As per my follow-up comment to Norm Walsh's comment below, NW: >> Obscure? Stole? Mystery? I thought I was fairly candid about why I left and why I joined Mark Logic. So here's what happened: I read just the... read more

[AWS:S3|EC2] Data Transfer Prices for Amazon Customers Takes A Plunge

April 22 2008

As per a post to the Amazon Web Services forums earlier this evening, Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Lower Data Transfer Costs Posted By: Kathrin@AWS Created in: Forum: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Beta) Posted: Apr 22, 2008 7:40 PM... read more

if ((OOP + FP + AOP) == XSLT 2.0) then 'Composable Language' else 'Try Again'

April 21 2008

SIDENOTE: @amike: The run was good while it lasted, eh? ;-) SIDENOTE.NEXT: After rereading the title, I'm not even sure it makes any sense. But then again, what's new? ;-) :D --- [Post.Body] DonXml's All Things Techie : Mixing Object,... read more

Filed Under: I've Never Thought About This From That Perspective

April 20 2008

last-ditch emotional plea � GNUosphere No matter how the death penalty is debated, the dialog I often end up in boils down to something like this… OK Peter, I understand what you’re saying but what if it was your kid... read more

[Amazon.com:POD] From "Monopolists" To "Censors" To "Dictators": How Taking Things To The Extreme Damages Your Own Credibility And Weakens Your Argument

April 18 2008

I recently received the following comment to my previous Amazon POD post from "Mary", I'm sorry, but anyone naive enough to think Amazon is not going for the monopoly on POD publishing needs to really read that letter. And, from... read more

Apparently The Hall of Flame URI Wasn't Cool Enough?

April 16 2008

Update: Not sure if it was this post, or someone else who may have emailed and/or someone at the W3C who took notice of the multiple 404's being logged, but regardless of the reason, it seems this has now been... read more

Has Anybody Actually Read Amazon.com's Letter To The Publishing Industry?

April 11 2008

As per the title, I'm wondering how many of you have taken the time to read through the letter Amazon.com sent to publishers on March 31st of this year? If you have not, it's probably worth your time to read... read more

Be Free. Be...

April 10 2008

YouTube - Penguins Linux Ad ... read more
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