With regards to ODF and OOXML, the ISO process is indicating that a standard is and should be something that represents a common ground for everyone, not simply the formal ratification of a de facto monopoly.

A while back, Abel Braaksma posted a request to XSL-List for interesting use-cases/implementations in which XSLT 2.0 played a role. While I am still working on optimizing things a bit, one of the pains I've been dealing with as part...

So last weeks "Open Source XML" post was a complete flop -- well, that's not true, as it forced me to think about and work on another project of which the code is now in good enough shape to be...

Programming, at its core, is the willful manipulation of metaphor. This may sound, perhaps, like a lesson more appropriate for an English literature class than a column on the nature of coding, but that statement nonetheless not only describes the...

Daylight Savings Time 2007 comes three weeks early and lasts one week longer in the fall. Because of these changes, almost all applications that use scheduling will need to be patched very soon. SearchDomino.com contributor Andy Pedisich offers tips and resources to help Lotus Notes administrators prepare for the impending adjustments.

Daylight Saving Time 2007 comes three weeks early and lasts one week longer in the fall. Because of these changes, almost all applications that use scheduling will need to be patched very soon. SearchDomino.com contributor Andy Pedisich offers tips and resources to help Lotus Notes administrators prepare for the impending adjustments.

Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., an Alcatel-Lucent company (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU), today unveiled its business and technology vision for improving the strategic role of customer service to drive business value by creating the 'Dynamic Contact Center' (DCC).

In this first part of a two-part series, Bob DuCharme introduces us to RDFa, a new, XHTML-friendly standard syntax for RDF metadata that allows you to embed RDF metadata into the Web in a novel way.

SearchDomino.com member Chandra Teja explains how to load XML from JavaScript and manipulate the data in Internet Explorer using the DOMDocument object.

When used in a form action, this code from SearchDomino.com member Jon Urwin will invite users to click a button, browse for a file, and then insert a shortcut to that file in a rich-text field. This is ideal for items like a Lotus Notes discussion database, because it provides an easy way for users to create a pointer to a shared file.

via the front page of Saxonica.com, we learn, Saxon 8.9 is now available. The most exciting feature of this release is that XQuery queries can now be translated directly into Java source code, reducing execution time by anything from 25%...

Tidal Software announced its Tidal Intersperse 6.0 solution now embeds JRockit Mission Control diagnostic toolset to connect to BEA JRockit, delivering an advanced, very low overhead solution for detailed monitoring of SOA applications. JRockit Mission Control can provide deep JVM performance profiling such as fine grain memory utilization, visibility into hotspots, and memory leak detection at a lower overhead than any other performance monitoring technology available in the market today.

Most companies, especially from the banking domain, develop a large amount of their software in C/C++, and generally, they are not interested in redeveloping the code in any other new generation language, such as .NET or Java, due to cost and performance reasons. One well known advantage [1] to sticking with the C++ legacy application is performance. Most scientific applications are intentionally developed in C++ for the same reason. But then, integration of this existing functionality with the new application is a big issue. The solution to this problem is incubating service orientation into the application architecture and accessing the legacy code by exposing it as a service, based on open standards so that it can be used across various platforms.

Skyway Software, the award winning provider of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design and delivery solutions, and GT Software, a leading provider of rapid SOA development tools for mainframes, today announced a formal partnership encompassing sales, marketing, and product integration. The combination of Skyway SOA Platform and GT Software's Ivory product offers a new element to the SOA marketplace -- a solution that can build new services, assemble existing services, while managing and governing reuse across multiple platforms from any type of data source, including mainframes.

Update: So that's embarassing... It's obvious now after comparing the pictures side-by-side that, in fact, it was Mike Champion who made the post, not Dr. Michael Rys... Mike Champion > | < Dr. Michael Rys I know... I KNOW! It's...

So this week I am working on a more hands on post that highlights the usage of Ruby, XML, and the .NET platform. The Gardens Point Ruby.NET development team recently released beta 0.6, and I've been getting my hands dirty,...

I am sure that most of you have heard about or have had a chance to use Google Maps. It's a great service and I was really impressed by the responsiveness of the application and the ease with which users could drag and zoom maps from a Web browser. It has in many ways heralded the arrival of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), which I am sure will revitalize Web development in the days to come.