Archive for January, 1970
January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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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...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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Squarespace - Blogging Evolved Bloggers. Independent professionals. Small businesses. Picky people who need to maintain a web presence, who want exacting control over their site, and powerful publishing features that cover everything from blogs to files. Anyone who is sick...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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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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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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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...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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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...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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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...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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Hot on the heels of our clickdensity heat-map software, we've taken on yet more developers to create our fourth and fifth products. Although the fifth product is 'top secret' (read: still a bit ambiguous), the requirements behind it have raised...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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As several commentators point out, there is quite a large size and complexity difference between the different office formats of the simple examples given in my previous blog Comparing Office Document Formats. But it is useful not to jump to...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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Joshua Tauberer updates the classic XML.com article "What Is RDF" by rewriting it from scratch. Tauberer claims that RDF is more relevant than ever in the world of Web 2.0.
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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We have been meeting with the SCA folks for a while and staying in close touch with its progression. We have finally made it official however and joined in the SCA effort. The list of companies collaborating in the development...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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Russ has pulled together a FANTASTIC comparison overview of Blip Messaging and Email, // @author RussMiles.com - Home - Got email? I'd rather have a BLIP... At the heart of LLUP is the BLIP. The BLIP is a piece of...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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According to the Burton Group's research, Prototype is the most used framework for Ajax development. In the survey of 488 Ajax developers conducted by Burton Group, the most popular libraries and frameworks ranked as follows: Prototype 26.6% script.aculo.us 19.5% DWR...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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I've just gone dual screen, and after two weeks I cannot imagine going back. Fantastic! Open Office always open on the right screen, Firefox/Thunderbird/Eclipse/Topologi/command shells in the left. This configuration makes it much easier to do research (cutting) in the...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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Sonic ESB(R) has been ranked first in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) segment of Gartner Dataquest's latest report on the worldwide application integration and middleware (AIM) market. The report, "Market Share: AIM and Portal Software, Worldwide, 2005," published June 9,...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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Bruce Perry's latest piece introduces GWT, the Google Web Toolkit, which is a kind of Java to Ajax compiler. It's a very interesting new development in the world of very interactive web apps.
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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I've updated my 1999 diagram Family Tree of Schema Languages for Markup Languages to include the innovation coming from OASIS, ISO, W3C and other places since XSD came out. I put ASL in, but left out things like ISO Topic...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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For years, the most frequent question people asked at conferences when I described myself as O'Reilly's XML editor was "when are you going to have an XQuery book?" My usual answer was "when it's cooked." XQuery isn't completely cooked yet,...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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M. David Peterson and I host a regular podcast, eXplorations, and most recently spent sometime discussing the open source movement and the underlying "business case" for open source. Mark (the M. side of his name) usually tends to argue...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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An interesting approach to reduce the response time while dealing with 3rd party data can be found here as a W AJAX pattern. This reminds me the Multi-Stage_Download pattern which quickly downloads the page structure with a standard request, then...
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January 1, 1970 at 2:00 am
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I'm teaching a course this week where the attendees requested some basic information on office file formats. People want to know how easy it is to convert from the kind of XML they generate into other purposes. So I loaded...
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