As a small business owner, I often get people calling up with some survey or another. They want to know whether my business is growing, whether I’ll be hiring more people this year, and what software and services I sell. If these surveys are the basis of the economic polls predicting what’s happening this year, [...]
I’ve been slowly working on a tutorial for using entity resolution catalogs that I promised the OASIS Entity Resolution Technical Committee (ERTC) I’d do (I chair the TC). As befits a proper tutorial, I figured I should test out the bits as I’m writing them in more than one implementation, just so I can warn people of the potential pitfalls. This has proved to be a frustrating experience for me, and I can see why so many people say technology is just too hard.
The Nigerian spam action shows no signs of dying down, but sometimes you do have to laugh… on scanning the TAG archives I came across this posting in which the subject line is STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL but the email has been sent to no fewer than 6 public W3C mailing lists, as well as a bunch [...]
I’m up to Day 26 of Mark Pilgrim’s excellent series on accessibility. Fortunately, the WordPress templates are mostly compliant out of the box so I had very little to change.
It’s taken a long time, far longer than we anticipated when we started. The W3C DOM Level 3 Core and Load and Save modules are, as of today, W3C Recommendations.
The XML conference I chair has traditionally run from Tuesday to Friday, with a closing keynote at lunch on the Friday. Friday has always been a slow day, and was so last year despite some excellent talks.
So we’ve made some changes this year.
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