Technical Analysis

Preparing for flying to XML Prague 2010, I was thinking about corresponding objectives. Of course, at Prague, I will talk about XForms and XSLTForms but XML deserves more! Read more »

It's a lazy afternoon a couple of days before Christmas, I'm copying several tens of thousands of files from one (xml) database to another, the sun's shining, and it seems like a good time to set to print (or at least electrons) a few thoughts I've been having lately on data. People's outlook about data to a very great extent is colored by the tools that they use to collect, process and display that data, to the extent that, for many years now, the data landscape has been described almost invariably in terms of SQL-related technologies. Read more »

It used to be, within most organizations or enterprises, that data existed in a box. That box may have been a file system containing a repository of word processing files and spreadsheets or it may have been a dedicated database system built using SQL in order to store the relevant information as tables of content within databases contained in the RDBMS. Read more »

Here at XML Today there is a strong and laudable push to promote XRX architecture. However, the very loosely defined REST architectural style leaves us a little short on best practice recommendations. Read more »

And no. I'm not going to start out with "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times". But I will tell you what kind of time it was.

It was a big damn Gold Rush. Read more »

This was published on the old site and is one of several articles that I'll be migrating over. Read more »