Don't show me problems show me answers, and don't show me them either! A couple of years back I had a very surprising experience with a junior programmer, who had just joined our team. I had asked him to work on some code until there were no more JUnit errors. A few hours… read more Rick Jelliffe

Exploring IBM Business Glossary XML The IBM Information Server has an XML format to allow you to import/export business glossaries ... There is a lot to talk about in examining this format. There is the good, the bad and the ugly in this format ... So, it is clear that this format will evolve. A bigger question is - should it? And should it even have been created in the first place? Michael C. Daconta

What to do now Now that ODF and OOXML are both set to be on the ISO/IEC books, it is useful to consider what the next productive steps are. For genuine ODF Supporters who are concerned that ODF has languished a little out of… read more Rick Jelliffe

Dynamic XML When I think of REST, the biggest benefit always revolves around using XML dynamically. It is a matter of reducing the contracts to their smallest possible state. This is why technology like Atom and RSS have flourished, they are totally… read more Eric Larson

Zorba XQuery Processor: Something Tells Me You Need To Pay Attention To This So I got a ping from William Candillon yesterday on IM, but I wasn't around so am just now getting in sync with him today. He and I had a discussion about a year or so back regarding a potential… read more M. David Peterson

Grady Booch via Second Life! I'm presenting a keynote at the next International Association os Software Architects (IASA) IT Architect conferences on May 22 - 23 in New York City. I was looking through the agenda and I came across this - Interesting Real-world Architectures… read more David A. Chappell

My long-term bet on rising energy costs I've had a couple of conversations lately with people I like that led to strange places. One was about the seemingly crazy investment I'm making in ducks, chickens, and all the infrastructure they need, and the other was what I… read more Simon St. Laurent

The Great Cornholio Patrick Durusau has fun on his site with a posting satirizing the strategies of some opponents and proponents of OOXML at ISO as Beavis (for the the former) and Butt-head (for the latter.) Wikipedia has a good explanation of the… read more Rick Jelliffe

Some Facts About Me You Probably Didn't Know... In 1998 I gave up an extremely lucrative contract with MSFT to go and work -- for free -- as an intern for the Seattle Supersonics. My dream "job". That choice was a mistake. At least from a personal level.… read more M. David Peterson

Norm Walsh Leaves Sun? And Just Like That, *POOF*, Update: As per my follow-up comment to Norm Walsh's comment below, NW: >> Obscure? Stole? Mystery? I thought I was fairly candid about why I left and why I joined Mark Logic. So here's what happened: I read just the… read more M. David Peterson

[AWS:S3|EC2] Data Transfer Prices for Amazon Customers Takes A Plunge As per a post to the Amazon Web Services forums earlier this evening, Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Lower Data Transfer Costs Posted By: Kathrin@AWS Created in: Forum: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Beta) Posted: Apr 22, 2008 7:40 PM MDT Dear Amazon Web… read more M. David Peterson

ROI by the Ton -- Going Green with SOA, EDA, RIA and Web 2.0 For the past several years, I have been involved in many healthy discussions centered around the benefits of adopting technology and its supporting tools and infrastructure. Never once had I ever thought of measuring the benefits in terms of tonnage… read more David A. Chappell

Document-driven data architecture in practice I've been working at Sun since 2001 as close architectural consultant on various pioneering uses of XML, SOA and Semantic technologies in a couple of divisions, first through Fourthought and now through Zepheira. Sun has been the practical landing pad… read more Uche Ogbuji

if ((OOP + FP + AOP) == XSLT 2.0) then 'Composable Language' else 'Try Again' SIDENOTE: @amike: The run was good while it lasted, eh? ;-) SIDENOTE.NEXT: After rereading the title, I'm not even sure it makes any sense. But then again, what's new? ;-) :D --- [Post.Body] DonXml's All Things Techie : Mixing Object, Functional and… read more M. David Peterson

XML design: data or documents? The iTunes XML format is an example of dumping a data structure to XML. In this post, I examine two examples of this and discuss its ramifications to XML design. Michael C. Daconta