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August 17 2008
A common theme at this year's Balisage Conference has been integrating Semantic Web technologies with more traditional web interfaces. So far, it hasn't been the more common microformats approach, but rather approaches that let users add assertions to documents in... read moreIs Office Suite Markup worth the trouble?
August 17 2008
In his Extreme "first person" talk yesterday, Patrick Durusau asked some of the right questions about the recent explosive battles over standardizing XML generated by Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org. I can't share his conviction, though, that getting through this firefight... read moreJust how large was the XML revolution?
August 17 2008
In a talk that he'd contemplated naming "XML as the precipitating factor in the upcoming religious wars," Eduardo Gutentag examined how XML participated in, or even started, a revolution that most of the world didn't notice. Gutentag quoted Jon Bosak... read moreAugust 12 2008
A small but high-powered core of markup specialists converges on Montreal every August. A decade ago there were XML conferences everywhere - everyone wanted to know everything they could about XML. Today, I think it's fair to say that most... read moreHigh Performance Scalable Web Sites and Optimization
July 10 2008
O'Reilly published Building Scalable Web Sites, High Performance Web Sites, and now Website Optimization. How similar and different are these three books? read moreMy long-term bet on rising energy costs
April 29 2008
I've had a couple of conversations lately with people I like that led to strange places. One was about the seemingly crazy investment I'm making in ducks, chickens, and all the infrastructure they need, and the other was what I... read moreAre wireless routers disposable?
March 07 2008
I spend a fair amount of time providing technical support for friends, family, and the occasional local political campaign. Looking back over the past few years, it seems clear that I'm spending a lot less time helping people with Windows... read moreRecession and the Web: This Time?
February 28 2008
In 2001, the sky fell for web development. Everything fell as the dot-com bubble broke. In 2008, even though the US economy's not looking so good, there's more hope for the web to follow the economy's course rather than shatter... read moreFebruary 23 2008
REST offers a great way to build simple applications that Create, Read, Update, and Delete resources. But what if you want to get at part of a resource?... read moreTen years later, time to repeat the trimming?
February 12 2008
In celebration of XML 1.0's tenth anniversary, I signed back on to XML-DEV to suggest that it's time to do to XML - just the core of it, please - what XML did to SGML around SGML's tenth anniversary.... read moreRails, REST, and anarchist XML
January 21 2008
I'm happy to report that Ruby on Rails not only offers a comfortable way to develop web applications, but that a little-noticed feature makes some formerly theoretical open approaches to XML much more immediately practical.... read moreCan the Internet reduce energy demand?
November 09 2007
You don't have to follow The Oil Drum to know that energy prices just keep climbing. Even if supply holds up, huge demand will make prices a problem for a long time to come. Can the Internet help reduce that... read moreHow long does Silicon Valley have?
October 15 2007
Living in a place that used to think of itself as the bright future of America, it's strange to me how people think that particular places will be the bright future.... read moreOctober 08 2007
Yes, I know that looking 43 years ahead is ridiculous for technology. But might it make sense for a place?... read moreSpreading the word about local blogging
September 06 2007
I'm mostly happy about how Living in Dryden has turned out, and every now and then I try to encourage other folks to do something similar. Judging by the growing list of Dryden weblogs, I'd say Dryden is doing pretty... read moreAlso find Simon on:
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