Looking at XQuery has been on my to do list for quite a while. In that while I always assumed that XQuery was something over and above XSLT – added some fabulous new capabilities. Well, I finally took the time to have a look at XQuery this weekend and I was kinda disappointed, even frustrated.They […]

Given that this was now a month ago I suppose it is somewhat old news… but worth posting anyway.We arrived in Mammoth Lakes, CA January 1st about 5:30PM – had to chain up with 3 miles to go – there was around 3 inches of snow on the ground. They expected 6-12 inches overnight. They […]

Just read Dan Farber‘s post on structured blogging that in turn refers to some other posts on the subject.He and some of the other posts he references are addressing the concern that the overhead of adding the structure isn’t worth it for the blogger. His conclusion, BTW, is that giving up (even before it’s really […]

In the work that we are doing in iECM we keep coming back to a discussion around what the right term is for what we are creating. I’ve gotten a bit distracted for a few hours trying to find a consistent definition of the various “xyz architecture” terms (reference architecture, technical architecture, abstract architecture, etc.). […]

I know it’s pretty old but I just saw it for the first time several months ago and found it delightful.  Tim Bray on WS-Opposition.

Okay, I’m stumped. I had a document that I received from a colleague and when I opened it the thing looked like this:The wierdness is the “1.” on the left of each line number. Other documents with line numbers didn’t show the “1.” so after banging my head against the wall for 3 hours (okay, […]

Just got the blog set up. Using WordPress. Very easy setup and looks like pretty decent admin…