http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/ O'Reilly XML Blog en Copyright 2008 Sun, 11 May 2008 20:28:08 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.21 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Hello all. My name is Griffin Caprio and I'm a new blogger here on xml.com. Apologizes are in order to Kurt, my fearless editor, since this is my first post and I actually came into the O'Reilly fold back in... http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/introductions_are_in_order.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/introductions_are_in_order.html Opinion 2008-05-11T20:28:08-08:00 Griffin Caprio 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. http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/javafx_snubs_xml_and_takes_a_s.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/javafx_snubs_xml_and_takes_a_s.html Opinion 2008-05-09T16:33:27-08:00 Michael C. Daconta A couple of years back I had a very surprising experience with a junior programmer, who had just joined our team. I had asked him to work on some code until there were no more JUnit errors. A few hours... http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/dont_show_me_problems_show_me.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/dont_show_me_problems_show_me.html 2008-05-06T10:19:56-08:00 Rick Jelliffe 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 bigger question is - should it? And should it even have been created in the first place? http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/exploring_ibm_business_glossar.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/exploring_ibm_business_glossar.html Technical 2008-05-03T09:00:24-08:00 Michael C. Daconta Now that ODF and OOXML are both set to be on the ISO/IEC books, it is useful to consider what the next productive steps are. For genuine ODF Supporters who are concerned that ODF has languished a little out of... http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/what_to_do_now.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/what_to_do_now.html Articles 2008-05-02T03:47:14-08:00 Rick Jelliffe When I think of REST, the biggest benefit always revolves around using XML dynamically. It is a matter of reducing the contracts to their smallest possible state. This is why technology like Atom and RSS have flourished, they are totally... http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/dynamic_xml.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/dynamic_xml.html 2008-05-01T08:00:57-08:00 Eric Larson 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... http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/zorba_xquery_processor.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/zorba_xquery_processor.html News 2008-05-01T00:40:20-08:00 M. David Peterson I'm presenting a keynote at the next International Association os Software Architects (IASA) IT Architect conferences on May 22 - 23 in New York City. I was looking through the agenda and I came across this - Interesting Real-world Architectures... http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/grady_booch_via_second_life.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/grady_booch_via_second_life.html Technical 2008-04-30T12:07:26-08:00 David A. Chappell I've had a couple of conversations lately with people I like that led to strange places. One was about the seemingly crazy investment I'm making in ducks, chickens, and all the infrastructure they need, and the other was what I... http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/my_longterm_bet_on_rising_ener.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/my_longterm_bet_on_rising_ener.html Opinion 2008-04-29T17:04:12-08:00 Simon St. Laurent Patrick Durusau has fun on his site with a posting satirizing the strategies of some opponents and proponents of OOXML at ISO as Beavis (for the the former) and Butt-head (for the latter.) Wikipedia has a good explanation of the... http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/the_great_cornholio.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/the_great_cornholio.html Articles 2008-04-29T02:15:51-08:00 Rick Jelliffe 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.... http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/some_facts_about_me_you_probab.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/some_facts_about_me_you_probab.html Opinion 2008-04-28T19:25:56-08:00 M. David Peterson 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... http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/norm_walsh_leaves_sun_and_just.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/norm_walsh_leaves_sun_and_just.html Opinion 2008-04-28T18:48:10-08:00 M. David Peterson 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... http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/awss3ec2_data_transfer_prices.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/awss3ec2_data_transfer_prices.html News 2008-04-22T21:53:18-08:00 M. David Peterson For the past several years, I have been involved in many healthy discussions centered around the benefits of adopting technology and its supporting tools and infrastructure. Never once had I ever thought of measuring the benefits in terms of tonnage... http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/soa_and_web20_by_the_ton_going.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/soa_and_web20_by_the_ton_going.html Articles 2008-04-22T06:19:14-08:00 David A. Chappell I've been working at Sun since 2001 as close architectural consultant on various pioneering uses of XML, SOA and Semantic technologies in a couple of divisions, first through Fourthought and now through Zepheira. Sun has been the practical landing pad... http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/documentdriven_data_architectu.html http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/04/documentdriven_data_architectu.html Opinion 2008-04-21T19:19:14-08:00 Uche Ogbuji