I have a class I'm preparing for tomorrow at the 2006 GeoWeb conference on the use of SVG in GIS. I'll be posting those notes tomorrow, but tonight, as I'm basically doing my damndest NOT to work on the class...

mikechampion's weblog Feel the power of the functional programming style, Luuuke. In DOM you can use XSL, and in XLinq you can use either XSLT or functional construction to transform from one tree to another without imperative manipulation. That will...

One of the things that I so enjoy about watching the Mozilla Firefox development process is that they are not shy in pushing forward with technologies that many would have thought solid and immutable. JavaScript is a case in...

Received an email today from Amazon Associates regarding their new aStore Beta. About 30 minutes from start to finish, and the new eXplorations "Store" is open for business :D eXplorations : Featured Music, Books, and Other Items of Interest ---...

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Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : how fast do IP addresses get ... In follow-up to another post in the EC2 forums, Brad Clements jokingly asks, > Firstly, regarding billing, you won't be billed at all from the time thehost...

Craig Noeldner and Brian Swan show us how to generate RSS feeds using the XSLT web service offered by Amazon's ECS.

via Robin Cover's XML Daily Newslink I discovered the following, Apache Abdera The goal of the Apache Abdera project is to build a functionally-complete, high-performance implementation of the IETF Atom Syndication Format (RFC 4287) and Atom Publishing Protocol (in-progress) specifications....

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Kiko sold I'm confused as to how anyone can define this as good. After you take out however much the investors get back after investing $50,000 there really isn't much left for the three employees...

Mass. to use Microsoft Office in ODF plan | CNET News.com Massachusetts will begin using OpenDocument as the default document format later this year as planned, but it will be sticking with Microsoft Office in the near term, the state's...

I recently wrote an article that is based on my experiences of working with SOA architects around the world, which summarizes the top 10 things that have made SOA projects successful. It has been published just yesterday, and you may...

There has been a predictable backlash against "Web 2.0" as a meaningful movement (above and beyond a set of technologies). In response, I present here a short case in favour of Web 2.0 -- what (I think) it means, what...

I am chatting with Kurt in IM about a few things, planning some details arounds dates we will both be in Seattle, and as such, found out about this, Kurt Cagle at AJAXWorld @ AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE Kurt Cagle will deliver...

I thought S3 in and of itself *COMPLETELY* changed the game for us little guys. For the record, it did. But not like this, Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon EC2 / Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon...

Opera users: Glenn I'm NOT leaving the basement before all sites follow W3C standards. You mean like this standard? XSLT, XPath, and XSL-FO Opera has near-complete support of XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0 "near-complete support"? Yo Glenn... How's basement life...

InformationWeek reviewed online Ajax applications in 6 different categories: Calendar, Email, Info Manager, Spreadsheets, Webtops, Word processors. In their definite perception, it is evident that Google is the emergent conqueror in 4 out of 6 categories. Google lost the race...

I had noticed Dan Sickles reference/link to LINQ in his follow-up post earlier today (e4(x)linq), but assumed it linked back to the LINQ entry page on MSDN, and didn't click it. However, I needed to reference the e4x specification for...

SPECIAL DISCLAIMER: What follows below is 100% my own opinion, though there are several facts contained in the text as well. Please also note, if you have no interest in reading things of a (somewhat) political nature (though there are...

I've been laughing so hard from what follows that its taken me five minutes just to get to the point where I could type again... Brutal honesty with a smile, :) From: Sylvain Hellegouarch To: "M. David Peterson" Date: Sep...

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Want to buy someone's Beta EC2 account ... This is the title to a recent post in the EC2 Developers Forum. The post now reads (not sure what it originally read, but I assume...