The final schedule is up on the XML 2005 web site and I think it’s the best yet (maybe I say that every year, but there are some really good talks on the program this year). We have big companies talking about what they’re doing, small companies talking about new technologies, and independent people talking [...]
Shelley’s posting Maids, Mommies, and Mistresses made me decide to throw in my own few cents on what makes a good conference submission, and how talks are accepted, to add to what Kathy Sierra and Adam Trachtenburg said (and there are good points in both). I’ve chaired a conference since 2001, organized tracks, and [...]
Now that the XML Catalog specification has been approved as an OASIS Standard, it feels like the end of an era to me. I’ve been chairing the Entity Resolution Technical Committee since its inception way back in October 2000 , working with a good group of people. As Norm put it today, we’d be happy [...]
So I’m up to my eyeballs in proceedings papers for XML 2005 which is one end of the conference spectrum in terms of formality, work for the chair and the planning committee, and degree to which things must be organised, when along comes the reminder that the web site is up for Northern Voice 2006. [...]
We went up to the Okanagan wine district for the Canada Day weekend this year, and I think it’s about time I wrote down some of my impressions of the vineyards and the wine. We took my friend Sally (she of G&T fame who knows a lot about wine), and had a great time. Tim [...]
Like probably every other computer geek out there, I do a certain amount of helping friends set up their home systems. This particular friend knows nothing about networks and firewalls and the like, and just wanted something secure that would allow her to have a reasonably safe Windows box and the daughter to have a [...]
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