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The Angle Bracket Tax or YAML/Developer Blinders?
May 17 2008
We easily forget, and I have been guilty of this many times, that technology serves business and not the other way around. YAML? Are you kidding me? Computers are fast and disk storage is cheap so I really am not interested in such minor efficiencies. Using indentation to distinguish hierarchy… read moreJavaFX snubs XML and takes a step backwards!
May 09 2008
I wonder, if in the rush to push something out the door, Sun forgot about separation of concerns and the benefits of skill specialization to quality production. read moreExploring IBM Business Glossary XML
May 03 2008
The IBM Information Server has an XML format to allow you to import/export business glossaries ... There is a lot to talk about in examining this format. There is the good, the bad and the ugly in this format ... So, it is clear that this format will evolve. A… read moreXML design: data or documents?
April 23 2008
The iTunes XML format is an example of dumping a data structure to XML. In this post, I examine two examples of this and discuss its ramifications to XML design. read moreApril 08 2008
When designing the electronic mortgage standard for Fannie Mae... I leveraged my programming experience and encoded the Model-View-Controller pattern in XML. read moreXML and Government Schizophrenia
April 05 2008
The U.S. Government has a love/hate relationship with XML. read more
