iECM Charter Approved
The iECM team has approved both an overall consortium charter as well as a techncal charter. Both can be accessed from the iECM Home Page.
The iECM team has approved both an overall consortium charter as well as a techncal charter. Both can be accessed from the iECM Home Page.
In my ZDNet Announcements of the day the headline that caught my eye (after their subject line of If Oracle can buy Open Source, why not Microsoft?) was DHS program tries to connect far-flung information, but at what privacy cost?In the iECM consortium I am working in, the US federal government is actively participating as […]
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 […]
Wow – that was fast. I’m reminded of Sally in a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving – (paraphrasing) “Another holiday?!? I haven’t even finished my Halloween candy yet!”. It wasn’t that long ago that the noise around Web 2.0 was at a crescendo and now there are folks “defining” Web 3.0.Just as with the Web 2.0 stuff, […]
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.). […]
Okay, there is a lot of contention around the use of a term like “Web 2.0” and yeah, to a great degree, I agree, it’s a bit “markety”; then again, I work for a company that has to make money (or my job and lots of others go away) and I understand the need for […]
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.
One of the topics of greatest interest for me these days is how to decouple data from its application. Timing was perfect as recent posts from Jon Udell‘s are on the same subject. Starting with his post Database truth and wire truth I wound my way through a number of other bits, one of which […]