Recently on bobdc.blog

What is a taxonomy? (2008-07-21) A standard definition.

XForms + REST + XQuery (+ Jenni Tennison) (2008-07-11) New, standards-based ways to build cool applications.

The (SGML) geekiest shirt ever (2008-07-11) "We're all special characters".

A successful Linked Data Planet conference (2008-07-11) Plenty of people, plenty of great talks and interaction.

An interview with Seth Earley about Linked Data (2008-06-13) The role that taxonomies can play in Linked Data applications.

home (page): This page.

home (life): Pictures of the kids, etc.

xml etc.: My work with markup languages and related technologies.

work, school: My employer; undergrad, graduate work.

other: Miscellaneous.

shameless plugs (buy my books)

Latest: XSLT Quickly from Manning Publications.

XML: The Annotated Specification from Prentice Hall. The definitive reference on the most important XML document of them all: the official XML Specification.

free "books"

Free epub children's picture books These were developed with the OLPC XO laptop in mind, but any epub-compliant eBook reader will read them.

Logo for Kids I was thinking about writing an introduction to programming for middle school kids using the Logo programming language. After writing about 90 pages and deciding not to pursue it, I've made an Acrobat file of what I did do available for anyone who can use it.

Operating Systems Handbook Wouldn't "Working knowledge of UNIX, VMS, OS/400, VM/CMS, and MVS" look great on your resume? Formerly a $49.50 hardcover from McGraw-Hill; now a set of Acrobat files free for you to download!

miscellaneous

Why snee.com?

rdfdata.org: A directory of publicly available collections of RDF and web services that return RDF.

XSLT 2.0 articles: XML.com has a complete list of my Transforming XML columns about XSLT; for people interested in learning about XSLT 2.0, I've created a separate list showing just the articles covering the new features and other issues.