Article Review

In some discussion below, the problem of XML culture in developer's world is mentionned

See comments from Kurt responding to Aspyker (http://www.xmltoday.org/content/pain-xml-web-20)

For most of developpers, XML is a convenient way to vehicule parameters and values. but a constraint because one must close the tags. Read more »

From Joe McKendrick, ZDNet

Back in September, Jack Vaughan went out on a limb (or is that branch?) and predicted the eventual fading of XML, long the lingua franca of the Web services age. (See “XML on the wane? Say it isn’t so, Jack.”) Jack said that with the growing popularity of Rich Internet Applications an enterprise mashups, it’s conceivable that we may see less and less XML.

In what may be potentially very good news for SVG, Patrick Dengler, Senior Program Manager for the IE Development Team, has announced that Microsoft will be joining the W3C SVG Working Group in order to explore ways that IE in particular can help support the SVG standard. Read more »

I gave this presentation at the Online News Association conference in San Francisco on Oct. 3rd. The talk was only semi-successful - due to a number of factors (not least of which being a parade of revelers passing in front of the conference hotel wearing little more than paint ... and sometimes not even that) I had a number of people abandoning the talk about halfway through. However, I think the talk provides a good overview of how Semantic Web technologies factor into the field of Journalism ... though without the nude party-goers. Read more »

Editor's Note: While software as a service has been bandied about for the last decade, I've been watching two fascinating trends beginning to come together - the NoSQL movement, which is increasingly exploring "non-traditional" databases, including XML databases, and the notion of Database as a service (DaaS), in which database access is managed via RESTful services mediated by either XML or JSON. Read more »

Editor's Note: This particularly amusing anecdote was sent to me by David Patterson, and had me chuckling about halfway through it. It does have XML relevance. Read more »

Back in early 2002, I spoke at a conference held by the IEEE in Portland, Oregon on information management technologies. Read more »