We are headed in the right direction! After years, actually decades, of talking about “high-level” programming languages we have achieved the first major increment since the time where programmers were given a means to program in something other than assembly language.I’m a computer scientist. I love programming languages. The more sophisticated (complicated) the better. Okay, […]
The United States is changing its daylight savings time (DST) dates this year to begin three weeks earlier and end one week later than they have in previous years. I’m sure that everyone agrees (actually, I’m more sure that someone disagrees, preferring to control this entirely themselves) that it’s nice not to have to remember […]
I’ve just been reading the Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices report from O’Reilly (this is a for fee publication – for an abridged and somewhat older piece see What is Web 2.0?). While the number of typos within it is somewhat disappointing, overall there are some interesting conclusions and insights – not sure what […]
I was recently listening to Jon Udell’s podcast conversation with Roy Fielding about HTTP, REST, WebDAV, JSR 170 and Waka. Lots of interesting tidbits in there but one in particular that I wanted to post on is with respect to JSR-170 and JSR-283; I’ve not heard these charactizations put quite as clearly before. Roy, being […]
I’m just getting to the point where I understand enough about ontologies to see the challenges that lie ahead for me as an evangalist for them. So when I receive a gift such as this, an absolutely compelling and easy to understand example of the value of ontologies, it makes me speak out loud in […]
I spent the first week of the new year (it was a very quite week) playing with ontologies. Major cudos to the group at Stanford that is responsible for Protege. Protege is an ontology editor, opensource and free. I’ve installed and played with the tool and it is quite decent, but the Protege-OWL tutorial that […]
I’ve just signed up for Technorati and have spent some time this afternoon familiarizing myself with the service. I’m a big, big fan of context – tagging, metadata, whatever the mechanism – so I am enthusiastic about understanding and leveraging this tool to its fullest. Regretably, I didn’t find the site as intuitive as I […]
EMC’s developer conference (DevCon) is this week and yesterday I spoke on Standards for Content Management. I’ve spoken on this subject, both at the EMC Software User Conferences (Momentum) and at DevCon for the last two years. Some stats: Event # of Conf. Attendees # of session Attendees – 2005 # of session Attendees – […]
I just read A Leap Back by Rob Weir and must say that this was a pretty enjoyable way to spend part of my Friday evening. In short, the post is about a mistake that Microsoft is making with respect to Office Open XML around the serialization of dates – seems Excel introduced a bug […]
The Xpath 2.0 specification describes predicates and specifically predicate ordering with “In the case of multiple adjacent predicates, the predicates are applied from left to right, and the result of applying each predicate serves as the input sequence for the following predicate.” Unfortunately XML Spy seems to have a bug. Given the following example, again […]