This is just too much. IBM running a series on “how to describe your open source project using XML“. One imagines testimonials; “I was cretaing a new open-source project every hour, and XML really helped me to organize my efforts”; or “I install 7 new open-source projects per day, and being able to [...]
Suddenly, the controversy over Passion makes more sense, now that I know that Mel Gibson is a traditionalist, pre-Vatican II Catholic. While our history books are peppered with references to many of the major moments in Catholic history; I have always been surprised at how modern historians ignore and downplay what was perhaps the [...]
For the second time in a row, I am linking to Sun’s website. Sun has posted an article claiming that Java is faster than .NET for processing XML. I was interested in the article, since beside having been the PM for the APIs discussed, I have in the past conducted my own comparisons using Xerces [...]
If you follow the rumor mill, you may have heard of X# or “Xen”, the crazy next-generation programming language that was reportedly being cooked up by people on my former team. I won’t say what they all are working on now, but some more of them have started blogs.
Victoria Livschitz of Sun discusses some ideas [...]
This site records and indexes the conversations on a bunch of IRC networks, and lets people search. This gets to a point I’ve been planning to write about here, regarding semantic web and shared memories. Two basic points for starters:
Some people deride “metacrap” and complain that “nobody will enter all of that metadata”. These people [...]