The XML FAQ is one of those web sites that those who’ve been doing XML for a while tend to forget about, until asked to explain some piece of XML that causes large volumes of discourse on xml-dev (such as whether to use elements or attributes). Then it comes in really handy to be able […]
We just finished the XML 2005 Planning Committee Selection Meeting, three days at the end of last week. This is one of the fun, albeit exhausting, parts of the conference, when all the would-be speakers have submitted their abstracts, the reviewers have graded them and commented on them, and then the Planning Committee gets to […]
Tagged xmlconf2005And the first distribution using OpenSolaris is out already! Schillix is only in version 0.1, but still, that’s pretty impressive, given they’ve had all of 4 days. (Via c0t0d0s0).
Tagged opensolaris, solarisWell, it’s out. OpenSolaris, that is. I thought it would be fun to indulge in a little fake historical writing (or dreaming, some of it really out there)… Even the people in the middle of it all, those who came up with the idea of making Solaris open source, those who came up with the idea […]
Anyone else notice a flood (well, trickle) of comment spams? They are comments of the form “great site”, “glad I found this site” etc, i.e., all mindless comments that could apply to any site, with senders that are poker or online gambling sites. Somehow they’re getting past Spam Karma 2 (which normally catches all the […]
One side-effect of working in the software world is a tendency to use programming as an analogy for life. Just to prove this, when people ask why I do Pilates I use a couple of programming analogies about how the whole process works. Pilates is a method of exercise which I started doing after tiring […]
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