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December 27, 2005

Technorati tags as metadata: making them more meta

Is it really metadata when you have to announce "here are my posting's Technorati tags"?

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Posted by Bob DuCharme at 3:21 PM | | Comments (4)

December 22, 2005

Semantic web apparently moving along

There are various ways to measure it, but Danny Ayers shows that where it counts, it's making progress.

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Posted by Bob DuCharme at 11:12 AM |

December 17, 2005

A news reader wish, granted

It turns out that Bloglines lets you choose, by feed, whether you want the complete content, the summary, or just the title displayed.

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Posted by Bob DuCharme at 11:33 AM |

December 12, 2005

Scripting the addition of XML files to the eXist XQuery database

This wasn't documented very well, so once I got it to work I thought I'd post it.

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December 9, 2005

Using (or not using) Adobe's XMP metadata format

If Adobe is really interested in promoting XMP properly, they could learn a lot about developer relations from Yahoo and Amazon.

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Posted by Bob DuCharme at 6:21 PM |

Short descriptions or full entries in the feed: your choice

If this is too terse for you, you now have an alternative.

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Posted by Bob DuCharme at 12:42 PM | | Comments (1)

December 6, 2005

25 years of database history (starting in 1955)

A 1981 article in IBM's Journal of Research and Development gave me a much better perspective on how database systems got where they are.

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Posted by Bob DuCharme at 5:19 PM | | Comments (2)

December 2, 2005

"Turing's Cathedral" and XSLT

George Dyson may not know anything about XSLT, but his recent essay about Google, John von Neumann, and biological computation reminded me of the two leading approaches to XSLT development.

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Posted by Bob DuCharme at 2:55 PM | | Comments (2)

December 1, 2005

No plans in place to upgrade Xalan Java to XSLT 2.0

From one of the horse's mouths.

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Posted by Bob DuCharme at 7:00 PM | | Comments (7)